https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/How-To-Deleted-File-Flagged-With-Virus/m-p/154782#M34756 <P>We are running ONTAP V9.6P2 on FAS clusters.&nbsp; We have Trend as our anti-virus scanner.&nbsp; When a file gets flagged as containing a virus the filer prevents the file from being accessed by Windows clients.&nbsp; How would we remove such files if they cannot be accessed via the Windows client? Is the only option to remove them using the diag ID in the system shell?</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:17:09 GMT EdS 2025-06-04T11:17:09Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/How-To-Deleted-File-Flagged-With-Virus/m-p/154782#M34756 <P>We are running ONTAP V9.6P2 on FAS clusters.&nbsp; We have Trend as our anti-virus scanner.&nbsp; When a file gets flagged as containing a virus the filer prevents the file from being accessed by Windows clients.&nbsp; How would we remove such files if they cannot be accessed via the Windows client? Is the only option to remove them using the diag ID in the system shell?</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:17:09 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/How-To-Deleted-File-Flagged-With-Virus/m-p/154782#M34756 EdS 2025-06-04T11:17:09Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/How-To-Deleted-File-Flagged-With-Virus/m-p/154784#M34757 <P>Could you remove them with the "Remove-NcFile" cmdlet from the PowerShell Toolkit?&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <LI-CODE lang="markup">Connect-NcController &lt;Hostname&gt; Remove-NcFile -Path &lt;file path&gt; -VserverContext &lt;SVM&gt;</LI-CODE> <P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 05 Mar 2020 21:49:53 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/How-To-Deleted-File-Flagged-With-Virus/m-p/154784#M34757 donny_lang 2020-03-05T21:49:53Z