Can .exe files run even if yo/u don’t open them and just download them? And if they do execute with a virus, is it possible to remove it

Hi, so I was trying to join a server and they required a captcha which if didn’t work, would send you to an online version to do the captcha. In the online captcha, they told you to download a file and then open it too get a code which you typed in to verify you were human. My friend tried it first and it then couldn’t find the file. So I tried to download it and in the bottom right I saw it was an .exe file. I quickly told my friend before he could open it to delete it, which he did. But 30 seconds later, his monitor went gray and I quickly told him to shut his pc off. He is currently on his pc without his wifi chip connected and went through his windows security check. He deleted an of his latest .exe files and removed anything that windows thought was a threat. Is there anything else we can do?

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