FinalShark

Thanks for the response! I'm probably going to try that whenever this full scan finishes. I'm currently at almost 7 hours for this scan. So far, Malwarebytes has discovered one thing, a Malware.AI. I'm not sure if this file is an issue as I know where I downloaded it from and I have not actually opened the file since I downloaded it almost a year ago. However, I'm still going to just delete it after the scan to be safe since I never got around to using it anyway. However, I do have an update on my Windows issue. Since I've been sitting around waiting for this scan to finish, I've been messing around in the settings. I unregistered Malwarebytes in WSC and fully activated Windows Defender. After doing that, the "VirTool:Win32/DefenderTamperingRestore" moved from active threat to the Protection History as "Abandoned". I still haven't removed the Malware.AI that was detected so I think those two things are unrelated, but if there's something to be thankful for it's this issue alerting me to possible Malware on my system.

To make a long story short, I updated my computer the night before and logged on today to discover a message from Windows Security. I opened up Windows Security to see the message that Windows Defender was turned off. I already knew this was the case as I use Malwarebyte Premium, but it gave me the option to turn it back on so I did. As I turned it on, it started scanning. I immediately stopped the scan because I didn't really want to have my computer scanning while I was using it. As soon as I stopped it, it said that it found "VirTool:Win32/DefenderTamperingRestore" and that the affected items were "regkeyvalue: hklm\software\microsoft\windows defender\\DisableAntiSpyware". After a lot of googling, I've been unable to come up with a definite answer or not and I'm hoping that someone here could clarify this for me. I'm currently running a deep Malwarebytes scan on my main SSD, but I'm 2 hours in with no detections and still have to scan my HDD which should take even longer. Did Windows Defender find VirTool:Win32/DefenderTamperingRestore because Malwarebytes Premium was installed and I re-enabled Windows Defender after my update or is it possible that my system is infected with some kind of virus or malware? Thanks in advanced for the help. Also, I've been having a hard time with the spam filter. Not to mention I just created this account and got hit with 3 random login attempts almost immediately.