Cant Delete Certain .exe files (Antivirus picking them up as adware)

[STILLWATER_LICENSING]

Hi,

I am cleaning out a users folder on our netapp share, and I ran into about 5 .exe files that I can not delete and any attempt to delete them pops up alerts from Sophos about them being Adware. I have tried everything I can think of to delete them.

Remove them via admin powershell session with -force

Third party programs with that forcibly delete items

Sophos doesnt give an option to delete

Cant rename them (says I dont have permissions)

Owner tab is not available so I cant try to take ownership of the files

What else can I do here? Is there a way to force delete them from Netapp CLI? All attemps I have tried give me a permissions error.

Thanks for the help!

[OhmR · Accepted solution]

You should be able to delete the files in Storage CLI 

Are you running in C mode or 7 mode ? 

7 mode 

1) Swith to diag mode 

filer2> priv set diag

Warning: These diagnostic commands are for use by NetApp
personnel only.

2) list the files in the volume using ls command . You need to give the complete path /vol/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/dir5/...

filer2>ls /vol/vol_test/
.
..
test3.txt
test.exe
test2.txt
filer2>

3)Remove the file by using rm commnad 

filer2*> ls /vol/vol_test/
.
..
test3.txt
test.txt
123.exe
test2.txt
filer2*> rm /vol/vol_test/123.exe
filer2*> ls /vol/vol_test/
.
..
test3.txt
test.txt
test2.txt
filer2*> priv set

filer2>

For C mode 

You need to run the same node level commands in the node where the volume is created

[STILLWATER_LICENSING]

That did the trick, only modification I had to make was there where spaces in the file names, so I hade to add "" around the entire directory path.

For future reference, is there a way to delete an entire directory rather than individual files with the rm command?

Thanks for the help!

[OhmR]

I am glad that helped you. 

I don't see an option to delete the Directory in the NetApp CLI. 

If I have to do that, I will create a temp NFS exports and delete the directory in UNIX client.