Remove .NQF files?

[TBITOPS 0]

Hello all,

 

Long-time lurker, first-time poster here. In trying to free up disk space on the server which houses my ESET server and RA console, I noticed some large .NQF files in the following folder: C:\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\Quarantine

 

One of these .NQF files is over 8 GB in size. I'd like to know if I can delete these files directly from Windows Explorer, of if there is a method from within the ESET server or console that I should use instead.

Thanks in advance!

[Marcos 5,070]

Yes, you can delete this large file along with the corresponding *.nqi file which contains additional metadata.

[TBITOPS 0]

Thank you for the quick response! I only noticed one NQI file present, which was named INFO.NQI. The other .NQF files in this folder appear to have a .NDF file associated with them. Can these all be removed as well?

[Marcos 5,070]

You're right, the corresponding file has the ndf extension. Basically you can delete the whole content of the quarantine folder.