Microsoft has silently fixed the "items skipped during scan" Windows Defender bug that was causing some items to be excluded from scans if they were stored on a network device. The issue was fixed ...

Update: This issue is now resolved in "Security Intelligence Update for Windows Defender Antivirus - KB2267602 (Version 1.301.1684.0)" definitions. Microsoft has released a new update for Windows ...

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My dell laptop which I believe is compromised, I have done a lot of full scans and it found over 10,000+ of threats last week. Thing is I then did a few other full scans and it didn't find anything.

If when you attempt to run a Microsoft Defender scan on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 device, but the AV scan fails and you receive the error code 0x8007139f, then ...

I prefer to have all my scheduled system tasks centralised...so I'd like to schedule a Defender scan using the *Vista's Task Scheduler*, rather than configuring it with the scan options in Defender ...