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you might find that it mysteriously reappears

>>jabron+(OP)
Source? You may very well be correct but I would like to see a source for such a claim.

>>jeltz+g1
Windows has had a mechanism called Windows Resource Protection[1] for a long while now, if you delete notepad.exe (I guess nowadays that file isn't even deletable), after a few seconds it will reappear again. If you delete edge.exe (or whatever it's called) or replace it with a copy of, let's say firefox.exe, the WRP will see the file has been removed/modified and restore it, because somewhere inside C:\Windows there's a backup copy of the files..

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Resource_Protection, previously Windows File Protection, introduced in Windows 2000.

>>jabron+(OP)
What if I tell my A/V it is malware to keep it from being reinstalled?