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Goddi8
Nov 17, 2025Copper Contributor
Does Windows Defender create a batch file?
Hi there, I am on Windows 11 an Defender did detect some malware during an installation.
The files have been blocked and quarantined, a deep scan did not find any more issues.
But I had a weired explorer behaviour after restarting - explorer exe did stop and restart. I realized the is a bactch file called securitycenter.bat in the autostart folder. The batch stops and restarts explorer. It was created right at the time defender did notice about the malware.
I checked explorer exe. There is only one on the system and it seems to be the correct one (signed by Microsoft).
Any ideas?
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