Windows Defender threats
Windows Defender threats
I probably received a false alarm because the same file appeared in two different sources once labeled as Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml and the next time as Program:Win32/Wacapew.C!ml. It was an old file and was detected during a standard check of an old hard drive, so nothing was executed on this machine. I reinstalled it just to confirm, but the defender reported the threats as removed and they were initially stopped. All full and offline scans show nothing else.
You're almost certainly safe. If you're really worried, you can use a Restore Point, but you're probably fine. Dumb story time: Ages ago a friend asked if I could pull some of his personal docs off an old work laptop SSD. I plugged the thing in and Windows basically locked up for 5 minutes from all the Defender notifications it was throwing. Given that Buddy worked for a *HIGH* power (and more than a little shady) law firm, I pulled a report and sent it off to him to share with their IT security. They were very interested. When they got back to me (2 months later) they tracked it down to one of the times Buddy had to check his carry on into China and thanked me for explaining a breach attempt they had. Fun times. All I ended up doing was running a full scan, restoring to the restore point I manually created right before installing the drive, and scanning again. That tower has been humming along just fine ever since. Oh, and of course I grabbed the pics and docs Buddy needed.