Windows 10: screen is locked with some Malicious software is detected about Licence key.data file

I was looking things up when screen locked up with this Malicious software

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Malicious software detection

I assume you received a message that reads “Preliminary scan results show that malicious or potentially unwanted software might exist on your system. You can review detected items when the scan has completed.”

The key word is “might.”

That means when the scan was finished the Windows Defender program determined that the software or file in question was not malware.

If no items were quarantined and/or listed in All Detected Items you can safely ignore the message you saw during the scan.

Or

If you would prefer you can always scan your computer with one or more of the following scanners:
List
of Malware Removal Tools

Regards...

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Windows malicious software removal tool detects 18 infected files but at the end says there is no malicious files detected

I scanned you computer to see in total there were 18 infected files. At the end it popped up that there was no malicious software detected. So are the files gone or were they possible threats that got cleared.

 

Malicious Software Removal Tool in Windows  


Hey Cliff, *Smile

It's for telemetry.

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