Windows Defender Trojan:Script/Wacatac.H!ml keeps popping up, even after going through multiple other scans which show: no threat detected

[Emiel O.]

Hello,I came here mainly to ask whether my Windows Defender can issue false positives because that is what it looks like to me. Since yesterday I have gotten continuous notifications (every 20 minutes or so when I use the laptop) about the mentioned Trojan script being detected and deleted by Windows Defender. According to Windows defender, it was located in my Temp files, like C:\Windows\Temp\NAV6E77.tmp. Every time it was detected it would be in a different NAV.tmp location. I never had this before since I started using this Acer Travelmate | X in 2018 and to be fair I was quite concerned. H

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