Hi!
Ok, look, my response saying “And for some reason you are trying to run a .exe file in linux and that’s not going to work, it is a windows executable” was to answer about the error message you got on linux but there’s something I don’t understand, why do you keep trying to open exe files in linux? Can you explain? when I clearly told you that .exe files are windows only. Zaid never mentioned to try to run/open them in linux, so why do you keep trying it?
Now, if you have watched the youtube video I shared you would have noticed that there are more steps other than disabling real-time protection, so please watch the youtube video and disable defender properly. I tested the keylogger and it’s working just fine. Once you get it to work we can deal with the linux keylogger.

Greetings!
Diego