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Unfortunately that's what happens when infections occur.įirst double-click the taskbar icon to open Securit圜enterĬlick Access Protection to expand that section You could delete the contents of the quarantine folder manually which would stop that endless loading syndrome that you see, but the files would then all be lost.
I'm not of your intention here, did you want to save them or what? To save them would be extremely complicated. Well if the files are all in the Quarantined folder they are regarded as infe3cted anyway.