Windows 10 Windows security refererences a file with undesirable behavior, but it does not show in File Explorer

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My Windows 10 Home security repeatedly references a file with undesirable behavior, as follows: C:\users\username\Downloads\ccsetup568.exe.

I no doubt downloaded this file in the past, but I stopped using CCleaner months ago.


My File Explorer Downloads folder shows as completely empty. Also the program Everything shows nothing with "piriform" in a file name.


Previously when all this happened with the same file in exactly the same way, I selected the Remove option. However, there was then on screen nothing to remove, as is the case now.


Is there something like a cache clearance for this Windows security feature, since there seems to be a repeating false positive based plausibly on some kind of continuing database error in Windows security?

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