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Paynamia
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Yesterday, Windows Defender caught a threat on my device.
Let me go ahead and preface by saying that I think it was a false positive caused by an issue with a DirectX implementation, but I only have anecdotal evidence.
I still went ahead and let Defender remove it, though, which is where the issue comes in. You see, Defender decided, for some reason, to re-detect the issue once per minute while it was being removed, which has resulted in three separate listings. The first says threat removed, the second says remediation incomplete, and the third says action needed. All of them list the same exe with the same threat name.
I can't get the third one to go away. I've tried the remove and quarantine options, which do nothing, I've re-scanned the same area of my hard drive, and I've restarted my computer, but it still shows there.
So, basically, how can I get rid of this, since the file it's pointing to is already gone, removed by Defender already?
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Let me go ahead and preface by saying that I think it was a false positive caused by an issue with a DirectX implementation, but I only have anecdotal evidence.
I still went ahead and let Defender remove it, though, which is where the issue comes in. You see, Defender decided, for some reason, to re-detect the issue once per minute while it was being removed, which has resulted in three separate listings. The first says threat removed, the second says remediation incomplete, and the third says action needed. All of them list the same exe with the same threat name.
I can't get the third one to go away. I've tried the remove and quarantine options, which do nothing, I've re-scanned the same area of my hard drive, and I've restarted my computer, but it still shows there.
So, basically, how can I get rid of this, since the file it's pointing to is already gone, removed by Defender already?
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