Windows 10: I believe I have a Trojan but when I tried to run Windows Defender Offline scan it just...

I then tried through powershell in safemode and got Errors were encountered when attempted to run WDO scan on your device. Can someone please tell me how to remove the Trojan

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Run windows defender offline with a Full Scan

Hello,

How to run a full scan with windows defender offline? By default, windows defender offline runs a quick scan. How can I override this? I'm trying to remove trojan downloader:win32/ by using windows
defender, but it didn't work.

 

offline scan by win defender

Hi,

To further assist you with your concern with Windows Defender, follow the steps below:

• Open the Run window by pressing Window + R button.
• Then type services.msc and hit "Enter".
  
• Look for Windows defender service in the list and right click on it and select start.
• Once Windows defender is opened try to do the offline scan on that window.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Defender Periodic Scanning or Offline Scanning?

That link does suggest it's useful to use Defender offline scanning in addition to periodic scanning and a third party real time anti virus (e.g. Kaspersky).