Can someone tell me what quarantining cpu viruses means?

[OnaJ]

I had my browser hijacked and had Spyware on my cpu last night so I ran Spybot and Spyware and Ad Aware. When you run those things does it automatically get rid of the spyware or viruses? Or does it just recognize them and then I have to do something with it to get them off the cpu? What does it mean to quarantine viruses and spy stuff? Is that a good thing or bad thing? My cpu is somewhat back to normal but it is running slow and going from web page to web page is slow. Does running those programs fix it all or is that only half the battle?

 

[KMA]

When you quarantine something, you keep it from being in contact with everything else. So when it says it is quarantining the virus, it means it is putting somewhere where it can't touch anything else, making it ineffective in doing its job. Dump your cookies and temp files. Run a scandisk and defrag, and do a disc clean up. With Ad-aware, you have ta select the ones you want to go away. When you're through with all that run them all again, you probably have more viruses on there than those programs can detect. I just cleaned a system with a similar problem, two very mailicious viruses, one was a trojan for passwords, and the other attempted to set the user computer up as a remote server, both were extremely difficult to get rid of.