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clamscan found these infected files:

/home/ludvig/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Proton 6.3/dist/lib64/wine/wordpad.exe: Win.Packed.Pwsx-9885269-0 FOUND

/home/ludvig/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Proton 6.3/dist/lib64/wine/dpnsvr.exe: Win.Malware.Malwarex-9883756-0 FOUND

/home/ludvig/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Proton 6.3/dist/lib/wine/wordpad.exe: Win.Packed.Pwsx-9885269-0 FOUND

/home/ludvig/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Proton 6.3/dist/lib/wine/dpnsvr.exe: Win.Malware.Malwarex-9883756-0 FOUND

How do I delete these files? I have tried clamscan -r --remove /home/USER but it went on for hours and I do not like the fact that I cannot choose selectively which files to delete. I also read online that one gets a window if clamscan detects infected files and that you can via this windows delete the infected files, but this does not occur for me. If you say that I should not or need not delete these I still want to now for the future on how to selectively delete infected files.

Thanks in advance!

ludz
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    Does this answer your question? How to delete file(s) in secure manner?. This is probably not even necessary. You can "selectively" delete files by using the rm command followed by the path. Or you can just select them in your file manager and choose "delete" from the context menu, or use the DEL key. – Nmath Aug 14 '21 at 07:37
  • It does not really answer my question, or maybe it does. Is this correct usage of rm: rm /home/ludvig/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Proton 6.3/dist/lib64/wine/wordpad.exe ? And what about "shred" is that better for deleting infected files? – ludz Aug 14 '21 at 07:50
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    Are you sure it is not a false positive? – David Aug 14 '21 at 08:12
  • It could be a false positive but as you see in my question I still want to know how to selectively delete the infected files that clamav finds. – ludz Aug 14 '21 at 08:48
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    Does this answer your question? How to quarantine or delete infected files with ClamAV? – karel Aug 14 '21 at 10:09
  • Sadly it does not answer my question Karel. As I wrote in the question "I have tried clamscan -r --remove /home/USER but it went on for hours and I do not like the fact that I cannot choose selectively which files to delete". – ludz Aug 15 '21 at 06:51

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Open a terminal and enter the following commands one by one (or, save all these lines in a script file and execute it) to delete the files.

rm /home/ludvig/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Proton 6.3/dist/lib64/wine/wordpad.exe

rm /home/ludvig/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Proton 6.3/dist/lib64/wine/dpnsvr.exe


rm /home/ludvig/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Proton 6.3/dist/lib/wine/wordpad.exe


rm /home/ludvig/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Proton 6.3/dist/lib/wine/dpnsvr.exe
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