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Trojan and Malware download
Recently, I ran a full scan of my computer using Defender and the system reported a trojan malware on my computer. The threat was quarantined. Question I have is why did not system not detect the tr...
Check of you have realtime monitoring enabled or not. You can run get-mpcomputerstatus to get the output.
it is quite likely that a detection update was pushed out for this threat, and that file was in your browser cache for quite some time before the update. This happens so frequently that here at my org we tend to ignore detections like this from the browser cache directories. You could test detection by using the Eicar test file of the MDE detection test detailed on the onboarding page.
Ok.. Thanks. As you have indicated, it might have been a recent detection update that found the malware.
Apologies. I should have indicated that it is my personal PC at home.
Apologies. I should have indicated that it is my personal PC at home.
