Windows Defender detecting Trojan:Script/Wacatac.B!ml in a dotnet application that I wrote and use for the last 15 years.

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Years ago I wrote a network test tool in dotnet. Over the years I have updated it to the latest dotnet version and added features and and new functions. Windows Defender just alerted me and deleted it saying that it had Trojan:Script/Wacatac.B!ml in the exe. I know this is not true unless that trojan is in Visual Studio's compilation tools! It didn't even give me an option to allow it. It didn't quarantine it, it just deleted it. History doesn't show anything. It is showing in the event log though.What does this Trojan:Script/Wacatac.B!ml even do? I'm trying to understand what Defender thinks

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