Quarantine

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Can you give more details?

There is a log file, errors.log--which in older builds of Microsoft
Antispyware, could grow to 4 gigabytes on NTFS partitions. If this is the
case in your machine, stop Microsoft Antispyware, and delete the file.

Quarantine is a folder, typically containing many individual files. If your
quarantine folder contains 4 gigabytes worth of files, I would wonder
whether they were quarantined MP3 files.
 
Thanx for your quick response.

My quarantine folder has several subfolders, one of which
is 4 Gigabytes big!
Some folders are empty. Some have small files in them.
However, both the sub-folder names and the file names in
the sub-folders are named in CLSID style, so I can't tell
what's in them.

I guess all I really want to know is whether it is safe to
delete all the folders and files.
 
I have now used "Manage Quarantine items" and solved the
problem. Thanx for your help! Much appreciated!
 
Did it give you a clear idea of what was in those large subdirectories?
I've seen reports of large numbers of files collecting under circumstances I
don't clearly understand--they were in different subdirectories than
quarantine, but this sounds similar.
 
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