Is archiving a virus safe ?

[sounik]

I recently got infected by a couple of worms (W32.Yautoit and W32.Imaut.J), I did a online scan and found out where they were located.. then i archived them into rar file and deleted the infected exe file...
Is it safe to do so ??
but recently i did a online scan with bitdefender and it deleted those rar files, so though i dont have them any more, but i would like to collect them... if ofcourse it is safe to archive them..

[wizrulz]

y u wanna collect them....???
Any ways sitting with time bomb is dangerous..u never know when virus can get activated .and ur whole system can get affected...better not archive them

[anandk]

...safer...yes...change extns first and then archive. or configure such dangerous extns to open with notepad. use The Computer Security Tool
http://www.computersecuritytool.com/