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J_Wellington_Wimpy
Jun 19, 2024Copper Contributor
how to get details of virus threat?
I thought I had a virus... so ran a full scan: no virus found. But I still felt something was wrong so I restored Win11 back to factory (and installed updates). Now I ran more scans. My C: drive w...
J_Wellington_Wimpy
Jun 20, 2024Copper Contributor
I created four new folders and moved part of my d: drive folders to them, then scanned each new folder in order. I was able to narrow where the offending item was. It turned out that I had carried forward my 'download' folder from three desktops ago and it had something suspicious. I deleted the whole folder.
But it seems like 'virus and threat protection' finds threats but does not eliminate them.