After performing an Offline Scan with Windows Defender, it detects malware pointing affected files related to my system

[Windows 11]

Detected: Trojan:Win64/Malgent!MSR Status: Quarantine failed This threat or app might not be completely remediated. Date: 21/02/2025 2:53 pm Details: This program is dangerous and executes commands from an attacker. Affected items: file: C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Updates\WindowsService.exe file: C:\WlNDOWS\System32\Tasks\Windows Service Task-y (UTF-16LE) taskscheduler: C:\WlNDOWS\System32\Tasks\Windows Service TaskI'm thinking to delete these files, but I might break something if I do so. What's the best thing to do with this? not really sure what caused these files to be considered as secur

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