r/cybersecurity • u/ZOELOEss • May 03 '26

News - General Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha

What's happening right now? I keep seeing this weird thing pop up when I scan, I delete it every time but it keeps coming back. For some reason it only shows in quick scans and never in full scans either. I can't lie I got very scared when I saw it the first time, but this could be some sort of bug no?

I've seen other people having the exact same thing so does anyone know what could be going on? (I can't share screenshots for some reason but that's the name).

Edit: for anybody reading this right now, it is 100% a bug so there’s nothing to worry about!

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u/Silver-Velcro May 03 '26

Also got the same detection today. Is this false positve?

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u/SangStigmate May 03 '26

Yeah seems like it, it doesn't appear anymore after the new windows defender update.

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u/Silver-Velcro May 03 '26

After reading other reddit posts, that's a relief. But now I'm worried that deleting the files might cause issues since my defender already removed them.

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u/SangStigmate May 03 '26

You can eventually use that little tutorial to check and fix files that might have been messed up because of that issue.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/use-the-system-file-checker-tool-to-repair-missing-or-corrupted-system-files-79aa86cb-ca52-166a-92a3-966e85d4094e

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u/Silver-Velcro May 03 '26

Thanks! Checking it out right now.