Thanks, I'm looking in "appdata\roaming\azureus" now.
Is there another possibility for me to be able to make the Azureus.EXE file re-appear as it was before?
Is there another command I can use to check the quarantine for the Azureus.EXE file?
How can Azureus.EXE not be in the quarantine when I only installed the Windows 10 2004 Update a few days ago?
Although this link describes how to UNINSTALL Vuze/Azureus, it suggests that the information you are looking to preserve is not lost with the deletion of azureus.exe. Check it out.
Uninstalling Azureus - VuzeWiki
Right click the folder and see if there's an option to revover previous versions of it. (Only if shadow copies are enabled)
Restore Previous Versions of Files, Folders, and Drives in Windows 10
Did you try to restore the file from Settings > Update & Security > Windows Security > App & browser control > Reputation-based protection settings?
The changes made after Windows Defender takes action should not be permanent. Therefore you can revert the changes by adding exceptions and restoring the files that have been removed. I stopped using Azereus a while ago after they got taken over. I can't remember exactly but they began pushing additional software in installation and I believe there was a substantial drop in users after these changes. If your P2P application is being flagged by antivirus then you've got issues. Antivirus won't flag P2P clients just because they are known to download illegal stuff and therefore more likely to also be linked to malware. And this is where lots of people get confused. It's rarely the application. The applications themselves are usually clean and well packaged. Unless of course, they aren't. And then you'll get issues like this. It's not uncommon for developers to sell out and have their software bundled with crap. It's happens a lot with lots of originally really good software. They might throw in suspicious stuff that gets picked up by antivirus. What it could be could be anything. It's rarely really harmful. Moreover it's annoying stuff like bunded software you didn't want and/or stuff that does shady things in the background like collecting information etc.
Or, it could be the traffic going through the torrent client. And your antivirus has picked it up and instead of dealing with the threat individually has dealt with the program sending and receiving the data.
Maybe try another client. There are many free and open source solutions out there. qBittorrent is a good example. Transmission is another, as is Deluge.
Thanks for your reply!
I just got a reminder from Windows 10 Pro to finish installing the Cumulative Update June 2020 by doing a restart of the PC.
Should I restart or will this only make things worse for me?
You're looking in the wrong place. You need to look for the folder that contained the original .exe (not any quarantine location) and if the folder is missing you need to look in the folder which is the next level up.
So look in:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming
open previous versions and restore Azureus folder.
Look in:
C:\Program Files\Azureus) or C:\Program Files\Vuze
If not present check C:\Program Files\
then look for those subfolders.
Then look in:
C:\Users\Usernam\AppData\Roaming
Look for the folder Azureus
RE: The above folder locations. You need to right click then select "Restore previous versions" if present.
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