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Win Defender not clearing threats
I've been using Win Defender on Win Version 2004 for some time. It recently has had strange behavior.
I ran a full scan and Defender identified several Potentially Unwanted Programs. They were mainly freeware program installation files. I clicked my chosen action for each but there was no indication that anything happened. I then looked for the identified files in File Explorer and manually deleted them. Nonetheless, Defender continued to identify the threat.
After manually deleting all the identified threats, I ran Defender again and the same threats were still identified even though the programs had been deleted.
I searched here and Google for this symptom but didn't find anything.
Any ideas?