Windows 10 Anyone Have 'MpDefenderCoreService' Running in Task Manager Now? Potentially After Recent Antivirus Update?

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I have Task Manager open to the Details tab fairly regularly and so I have a good understanding of the regular tasks that are running in the day. I use Windows Defender as my primary AV, and I always see 'MsMpEng.exe' running which is normaltoday however, I've noticed another task running alongside it, called 'MpDefenderCoreService.exe'. this isn't usually running, and I did inspect its file location which is C Drive/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows Defender/Platform/(numbers, seemingly a version number), alongside all the other Defender files. everything was last modified on November 1stidk why

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