How to configure quarantine files removal on Windows Defender Antivirus
If you don't want Windows Defender Antivirus to keep quarantine items forever, you can use this guide to configure automatic removal after a specified number of days.
On Windows 10, when Windows Defender Antivirus can't fully determine if a suspicious file is infected, usually, it moves it to the Quarantine folder. This is a special location designed to isolate threats so that they can't harm your computer, or so you can restore false positives as necessary.
The only caveat is that these suspicious items will stay forever in the Quarantine folder. However, if you don't want to keep these items for a long time, or you want to prevent attackers potentially restoring quarantined threats back to your device (as we've recently seen with the AVGater exploit that affected several AV software), it's possible to configure the Windows 10 antivirus to remove quarantined items after certain number of days automatically.
In this Windows 10 guide, we'll walk you through the steps to configure Windows Defender Antivirus to remove quarantine items after a certain number of days you specify.
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