My antimalware service executable was using over 50% of my CPU

[Windows 10]

My PC was running slow and I took a look at my task manager and saw that my 'antimalware service executable' was using over 50% of my CPU. I looked through the internet and found this articlehttps://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/high-cpu-usage-because-of-antimalware-service/b20c6fef-0ce1-4ad1-8874-f76c8a89523aI followed the steps and when I got to 'On the right hand pane, double-click on Windows Defender Scheduled Scan.' I did not have this in my windows defender file. I looked through the internet to see if anyone else had this issue but none(I tried to upload images to h

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