No worries buddy. Thank you so much for any help. I hope today improves. I went with the exclusion and moved on. I am now mining BTX!!!
I am getting an average of 21.37. In your experience, is that reasonable?
GeForce 1080
SPMOD2
Intensity 23
MSI settings:
Power limit 100%
Core Clock: +75
Memory Clock: +500
Sorry had long and bad day today so couldn't come back to you earlier...
Suggestion would be to check your Windows Defender quarantine, restore the file to original folder and do the exclusion so by next scan it won't be quarantined again.
Not sure how to done it in WinDef as I use another AV software, but this way it works and you don't need to turn off WinDef (which I wouldn't recommend).
Great to see you mining:), welcome to the gang and BTX

I got around 16 on 1070 13 on 1060 (6GB) 12 on 1060 (3GB), thus around 21 on 1080 seems reasonable to me.
On 1070 I have power limit to 70%, Core +0 and Memory +577
In your case I would try playing bit more with Clocks (specially memory) to get some extra hashrate, but depends how much risky you'd like to go - if you have only 1 card probably not much.
Enjoy BTX and mining:)!