virus threat detected

[sirmutesalot]

ever time i open magic chat box windows defender detects a vulnerabledriverwinNT/winringring0 virus this is with the newest version of magic chat box

[sirmutesalot]

as far as i know from what widows defender says its dangerous and executes commands from an attacker and then you go to the learn more button and it says VulnerableDriver:WinNT/Winring0.A is a malicious version of a legitimate kernel-mode driver, WinRing0.sys, which contained a known vulnerability under CVE-2020-14979. The driver existed for many years before the vulnerability was discovered in 2020, it provides a way to access hardware components, such as CPU and memory without notification. The driver is bundled with several popular hardware-monitoring, overclocking, and RGB lighting control utilities, such as old versions of CapFrameX, EVGA Precision X1, FanCtrl, HWiNFO, Libre Hardware Monitor, MSI Afterburner, Open Hardware Monitor, OpenRGB, OmenMon, Panorama9, Razer Synapse, SteelSeries Engine, and ZenTimings.

The problem can be triggered through a technique known as Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) to exploit this vulnerable driver. It exploits the ring-0 driver in order to launch code with corrupted kernel-level privileges. Once the code runs, it can often be used to circumvent security protections to deactivate antivirus software, install ransomware, or to install persistent code for later attacks. Microsoft Defender identifies the vulnerable driver, and blocks the attack vector.

[lavawolf57]

is there a way to prevent this from happening?