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Discus and support Windows Defender and Windows Defender Log Question/Issue in Windows 10 Software and Apps to solve the problem; Hello.Around 12h ago from this post I got a notification from Windows Defender notifying me that it detected a threat on my PC,... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Software and Apps' started by Jonathan1891, Oct 26, 2023.

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    Windows Defender and Windows Defender Log Question/Issue


    Hello.Around 12h ago from this post I got a notification from Windows Defender notifying me that it detected a threat on my PC, "Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.H!ml". I assumed the threat was located in a folder called "Setup" under my downloads and deleted it as it was unknown to me that it was there or was downloaded. I'm still uncertain of how this ended up on my PC as it was shown under downloads of "today", but I had only saved/downloaded 5 images from Google in the entirety of yesterday and can't remember when I last downloaded anything that was a setup or had executable files.After doing that Win

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