Windows 10: Windows Defender Trojan:Script/Wacatac.H!ml keeps popping up, even after going through...

Hello,I came here mainly to ask whether my Windows Defender can issue false positives because that is what it looks like to me. Since yesterday I have gotten continuous notifications every 20 minutes or so when I use the laptop about the mentioned Trojan script being detected and deleted by Windows Defender. According to Windows defender, it was located in my Temp files, like C:\Windows\Temp\NAV6E77.tmp. Every time it was detected it would be in a different NAV.tmp location. I never had this before since I started using this Acer Travelmate X in 2018 and to be fair I was quite concerned. H

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Virus Trojan:32/Wacatac.DC!ml not completely remediated on Windows PC

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Virus Trojan:32/Wacatac.DC!ml not completely remediated on Windows PC

 

Virus Trojan:32/Wacatac.DC!ml not completely remediated on Windows PC

This is a "Backdoor" trojan. Read about it here: Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.D!ml - Virus Lists and Removal Steps

These are the most dangerous, and most widespread, type of Trojan.

Backdoor Trojans provide the author or ‘master’ of the Trojan with remote ‘administration’ of victim machines. Unlike legitimate remote administration utilities, they install, launch and run invisibly, without the consent or knowledge of the user. Once installed, backdoor Trojans can be instructed to send, receive, execute and delete files, harvest confidential data from the computer, log activity on the computer and more.

If your computer was used for online banking or has credit card information on it, all passwords should be changed immediately to include those used for email, eBay and forums.
You should consider them to be compromised.
They should be changed by using a different computer and not the infected one, if not an attacker may get the new passwords and transaction information.

Banking and credit card institutions should be notified of the possible security breech.

 

Virus Trojan:32/Wacatac.DC!ml not completely remediated on Windows PC

Can anyone assist?

Earlier today a .zip file was downloaded onto my Windows 10 PC which contained a Trojan:32/Wacatac.DC!ml virus. I am not sure if the virus was run or not but it was detected by Windows Security.

As a precaution I have performed a System Restore in Windows but I still see the following message in Windows Security (allowing for some security details to be blacked out):






The only Action allowed for the above is Allow and all the affected items, as can be seen above, appear to be in the Downloads folder.

Neither Windows Defender or Malwarebytes indicate a problem in the Downloads folder, but can anyone suggest a tool that I can use to verify that the virus has been removed?

Also, is it possible for me to seek to clear the warning above, and does anyone know how that can be done?

Thanks

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