Situation: I have a Win10 Home PC. I also have a small NAS (network storage drive.) Part of what I end up doing is tech support for family computers. My sister gave me her ("unbootable") laptop. I managed to get into it and, of course, made a backup of all her documents to the network drive ("Sister's Laptop" folder on the NAS.) Didn't bother going through what's there, all too much. Laptop's clean, booting, everything's happy, a month goes by and it's time to delete that folder. In that folder, in her documents, are the Alot toolbar installer and Alot music toolbar. Well, no, we don't want those. But I'm deleting the entire folder anyway. Sophos comes up and says "Hey! Potentially unwanted program - Alot toolbar!" So far, so good. Except I'm already deleting it. Except I *can't,* because apparently Sophos has locked it. OK, skip. Sophos didn't delete them, just reported it. Try another delete, same thing - warning and lock. Try from the command line. Access denied. Why do I have to turn *off* my antivirus to delete two unwanted files (and I agree, the Alot toolbar is unwanted)? (The kicker is, since these were on the NAS, the files weren't even going to the recycle bin, they were just going poof.) I shouldn't have to fight my antivirus in these cases. Can we do something about this behaviour?
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