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Sorry, for the late reply, but this should help:
need help fixing windows defender, have threats that i cant remove/quarantine
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as the tittle suggests need help removing these but they wont leave, i suspect they are removed but windows defender glitched out and is still showing me, when i do a scan it says no new threats were found in the notification bar but when i go into the app itself it says 2 threats
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Anonymous
2024-02-05T11:05:26+00:00 Sorry, for the late reply, but this should help:
Thanks, Les. Your reply might've been late, but the script works a treat! And quite educational too. Didn't know of that TrustedInstaller approach yet.
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Anonymous
2023-10-18T20:34:56+00:00 Hi erickrasch,
I'm Paul and I'm here to help you with your concern.
Yes, It could be a bug in the Windows Security Protection History. I suggest that you try the method below.
Open Windows Explorer > Go to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\History\Service > Move/delete all the files inside the Service folder.
Then Restart the PC.
I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions and keep me posted.
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Anonymous
2023-10-19T13:02:12+00:00 I suggest that you take ownership of the Service folder. You can follow the guide from the link below on how to do it.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-take-ownersh...
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Anonymous
2023-10-18T20:48:40+00:00 im getting this when i try to go into the scans folder