{"id":3613,"date":"2013-09-03T12:13:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/quarantine\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:13:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:13:08","slug":"quarantine","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/4073\/quarantine","title":{"rendered":"Quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_quarantine_mean\">What Does Quarantine Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A quarantine is the process of isolating a file suspected of being infected with a virus to a specific area of a storage device in order to prevent it from contaminating other files. The quarantine process is used when anti-virus software detects a problem and is unable to eliminate it with its current protocols, or when it is unsure whether or not the file is a known virus. 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