Advice Request Renaming the windows defender file?

Thread starter Sukhvansh Jain
Start date Jun 17, 2019

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Sukhvansh Jain

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Jun 17, 2019

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When I try renaming Windows Defender file it shows that this can't be done due to TrustedInstaller

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EmanuelJacobsson

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Jun 22, 2019

#2

That isnt a virus, TrustedInstaller is windows way of protecting important files, like defender.

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Jun 22, 2019

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What were you trying to achieve?

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