Hi, sorry I had no idea under which category to post this.
Let me explain the problem, yesterday I was running a full scan with my second opinion antimalware Emsisoft Emergency Kit and I guess as I was running that Windows Defender started its periodic scanning that it does periodically...of course. As emsisoft was still scanning, windows sent me a notification saying “Windows periodic scanning complete, one threat was found” (or something like that) I quickly checked out the virus and it was a Trojan in my AppData\Local\Temp folder with the name tmp[numbers]. I quickly removed it and after a couple more minutes Emsisoft returned with no threats found. To make sure that the virus Windows found was gone I ran another full scan with this time Malwarebytes and didn’t get anything bad. (I also scanned rootkits, registry, memory and all that)
My question is since 2 scanners were running at the same time, did Windows Defender assume that Emsisoft was a virus? What could’ve happened?
I deleted all my Temp files, I reopened Emsisoft EK and saw that a new file was created in my Temp folder which a similar name to what Windows found a virus in, tmp[but this time different numbers] was created in my Temp folder. So maybe this file is just something that belongs to EEK and is created each time the software is run and Windows thought this was a virus as they were scanning at the same time?
Please let me know your thoughts.
Thanks.