Windows 11 How to resolve this False positive Windows defender - Trojan:Win32/AccessibilityEscalation.A

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Last week I tried to do a clean boot by disabling some services in msconfig and got locked out of windows 11 saying " something happened and my pin is missing " Then I had to change the accessibility icon on log screen to 'cmd' by changing utilman.exe to cmd.exe , so I could access msconfig to enable all the services back again.I was able to login back to win11, and the defender showed that the utilman.exe is Trojan:Win32/AccessibilityEscalation.A. Then I did the SFC scan and restore health to bring it back to utilman.exe . The hashes are matched now and SFC says there is no problem.But I'm st

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