Windows 10: Windows Defender found a lot of viruses but I cannot delete them.

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    Windows Defender found a lot of viruses but I cannot delete them.


    Some days ago I ran a full scan and Windows Defender show a lot of viruses with "High" or "Severe" level of threat. I set the actions to "remove" and the process toke most than 12 hours to complete, then when I check again the list still has the same viruses. This is also an issue because now, each time I open Windows Defenders it get stuck since the list is more or less about 80 or 100 items.For what I can see, most or all of them are from the Recycle Bin. I deleted all the files from the Recycle Bin and then run an offline scan but didn't change anything.I saw on another post instructions to

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