How do I get more granular control over the function of Windows Defender?

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An online associate who I have interacted with occasionally for multiple years sent me a ZIP file on Discord for a complex and presumably legitimate purpose, wherein they had been developing a .NET application to help with editing text files for obscure video game modding. I was using Discord's web version, from a standard web browser at the time, and not from a standalone Discord app. As such, this ZIP file was downloaded via the standard web browser download procedure into the Downloads folder on Windows. Then, Windows Defender determined that the .NET application this user had developed was

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