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Before you start

Keep any copy you may need to recover a website or investigate an incident. Deletion is permanent.

Steps

Find the copies.

In Quarantine & recovery, filter to the copies you want to remove.
Select them.

Check copies across pages; the header checkbox selects the current page.
Choose Delete or Delete selected.

Read the confirmation and confirm.
Check the result.

Failures are listed above the table for review.

What you should see

The selected copies are gone and the rest remain.

If something goes wrong

Delete removes the stored copy, not the live website file. Copies used by an unfinished cleanup are protected. Expired copies are removed automatically by the maintenance service; the Retention column shows each copy’s expiry.

LEARN BY DOING

Follow the steps visually

Choose a step to review its instructions and reference screen. Terminal output is an example.

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Choose a step

Find the copies

In Quarantine & recovery, filter to the copies you want to remove.

Terminal / console example

Example only. Nothing runs on a server from this guide. Replace placeholders before using a command yourself.

Try the working Malware Protect practice panel

This runs the plugin’s interface code with sample data in your browser. You can try buttons and forms here. Results are simulated and reset when you reload the panel.

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