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Do I have the Defender bug you warned about?

Q I read Issue 606’s News section with interest, and in particular the ‘Update Windows Defender to fix file-dumping bug’ story on page 6. I’m an elderly computer user and I try to follow your instructions exactly, but I don’t always understand how to interpret my results.

When I checked to see if I had been affected, I could not

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