Hello,

I am noticing a few seemingly odd named  .wim image files in various system folders.  

I was just worried about them being related to a root kit of keylogger or whatever kind of malware. But my scans (full ) on defender and on McAfee (I installed McAfee just to get a second opinion) both came up clean. I did have some ‘weird seeming’ behavior from defender in windows 11.

After a full scan the message came up about everything being clean, but there some files skipped. When I clicked on view those skipped files, I got this picture error:

 

the second picture is of 4 named .wim files.  

 

-any thoughts or suggestions on how to proceed?  I’d love to follow some suggestions and ease my mind of this concern, whether it be a rational or irrational.  

 

thank you, 

 

DB

 

Ps the text in white at bottom I added via edit pic for my notes

also, posting from my phone, and first post disappeared.  I attribute that to my user error…if moderator considers this a double post, then please pm me and my apologies.