Windows 10: Antimalware Service Executable using most of my CPU and I am unable to end it

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    Antimalware Service Executable using most of my CPU and I am unable to end it


    So I have recently bought my new PC and it worked just fine but today I found an unusually high CPU usage, checked task manager and saw that this service uses about 80% of my CPU which is a Ryzen 7 5700g so its not a weak CPU by any means. I have waited for a few hours but the high usage continues. I've tried to end it from my account which has admin permissions but it gave me the "Operation is not completed Access denied" error. I have logged into the admin account from command prompt net user aministrator /active:yes and it still gives me the same error when trying to end the task. How

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