How to selectively delete infected files

Question

clamscan found these infected files:

/home/ludvig/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Proton 6.3/dist/lib64/wine/wordpad.exe: Win.Packed.Pwsx-9885269-0 FOUND

/home/ludvig/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Proton 6.3/dist/lib64/wine/dpnsvr.exe: Win.Malware.Malwarex-9883756-0 FOUND

/home/ludvig/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Proton 6.3/dist/lib/wine/wordpad.exe: Win.Packed.Pwsx-9885269-0 FOUND

/home/ludvig/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Proton 6.3/dist/lib/wine/dpnsvr.exe: Win.Malware.Malwarex-9883756-0 FOUND

How do I delete these files? I have tried clamscan -r --remove /home/USER but it went on for hours and I do not like the fact that I cannot choose selectively which files to delete. I also read online that one gets a window if clamscan detects infected files and that you can via this windows delete the infected files, but this does not occur for me. If you say that I should not or need not delete these I still want to now for the future on how to selectively delete infected files.

Thanks in advance!

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 01 '21 at 09:47

Open a terminal and enter the following commands one by one (or, save all these lines in a script file and execute it) to delete the files.

rm /home/ludvig/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Proton 6.3/dist/lib64/wine/wordpad.exe
rm /home/ludvig/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Proton 6.3/dist/lib64/wine/dpnsvr.exe
rm /home/ludvig/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Proton 6.3/dist/lib/wine/wordpad.exe
rm /home/ludvig/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Proton 6.3/dist/lib/wine/dpnsvr.exe

How to selectively delete infected files

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