How To Open a Potential Virus file?

Question

How do you open a .exe file that may be a virus/trojan without it harming your computer? is there a way to quarantine it? i am not positive it is a harmful virus, but chances are it might be. i used bitcomet to torrent a map mod for Diablo 2

Answer 1

you do not want to open it . you ant to remove it . if you open it there is no telling what it may do.  

Answer 2

Not open, is like operating a bomb inside your operative system, you are never shure about what can happen. I will resume this in this phrase. If you use an antivirus for check all the thinks that you are downloading, you can be shure that before some months you will have at least 5 viruses that fooled the scan. And this happen with panda, norton (Specially with norton), the panda online, the umbrella, the AVG, the Pc cillin (Specially with this). Then if you are using files that you think that are relative safe you will have a medium risk, and if you uses that think that you suspect that have something then you will make the entrance of viruses in your system, even faster.

If you think that have virus pass he scan, if this don´t found anythink, then use it at your discretion.

Answer 3

if it comes to you as executable does not matter what you do as soon as you load it mostly they make your computer to execute them,

when your receive a file or folder as attachment or as part of some application (this is usually where they hide it) ,First thing you do is right click on it and click on "Scan for virus"..if you really do not know some basic programing Do not keep it in your computer ,get rid of it as soon as you can ,why you want to keep a virus?? to send it to someone else???

Do not forget sometimes your Anti virus software Norton or Macgaffee

if they do not know a file or name is not familiar to them they give you warning about Virus but it does not mean you have viruse,look at your pc performance if you find something wrong with it ,,,,now check your Qurantine bodx..

Answer 4

better to be safe than sorry. If you suspect, just don't open it. Or, if it's really urgent, scan it with an anti virus system. ( I use Norton)

Answer 5

Don't. Just delete it. The moment you open it the damage is done. You can not quarantine something AND run it.

Answer 6

Just scan the file with updated antivirus or spyware or adware. and open it.

Answer 7

It's not even worth trying. Try looking up "Diablo 2 map mod" on google and find a respectable website to download it from.