Summary:

As SecureAnywhere scans and shields your Mac, it removes all items associated with threats. It then disables their operation and moves them to a holding area, called quarantine. While in quarantine, threats can no longer harm your Mac or steal your information. We do not recommend deleting quarantined items.

Quarantined items may be false positive detections that need to be restored, or, in rare cases, used to block and quarantine polymorphic malware.
   

• Webroot conserves disk space by compressing quarantined items.

This article applies to:

Products	Platforms
Webroot SecureAnywhere	Apple - View the Windows article

 

Solution:

To manage quarantined items:

1. Open the SecureAnywhere interface (click the Webroot icon in the menu bar, then select Open Webroot SecureAnywhere from the drop-down menu).
    
2. From the main window, click Mac Security.
   
   
    
3. From the Mac Security window, click the Quarantine tab.
   
   
    
4. On the bottom right, you will see the options Delete Permanently and Restore.
   
   
    
5. To delete or restore items:
    
   • If you want to remove the item permanently, click Permanently Delete. Be aware that after erasing it, you can never restore the item.
      
   • If you want to move the item back to its original location, click Restore. When an item is restored, SecureAnywhere will no longer detect it during scans. If you want the item to be detected again in the future, you can change its detection rules.

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