Windows 10: How a get back a dismissed threat notification in Windows defender?

Hi


I, by mistake dismissed a threat notification in windows defender. its not showing up anywhere now. How can I get it back?

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Suppress "Windows Defender Antivirus did not find any threats..." notification on Windows 10

You can turn off Enhanced Notifications for Windows Defender:

1. Press Windows + i.
   
2. Click Update & Security.
   
3. From the Update & security sidebar, click Windows Defender.
   
4. Scroll to the Enhanced notifications section and select No.
   

If you do not see Enhanced notifications as an option (likely because you are running Windows 10 15042 or newer), include the following additional steps:

1. Click Open Windows Defender Security Center.
   
2. Click Virus & threat protection.
   
3. Scroll down and click Change notification settings.
   
4. Turn off Receive recent activity and scan results.
   

This will turn of successful updates and only notify you critical events.

 

New Windows Defender Security Centre. Option to Dismiss/Ignore notifications?

I have the same issue. I have a Bluetooth adaptor built into a permanently attached VR headset, I have purposely disabled the adaptor in control panel.

Windows defender shows a device driver warning on the Defender Notification Icon and under 'Device performance and Health' in the Defender Security Centre in reference to the disabled hardware.

I want to dismiss this notification so it no longer is reported as a problem.

The Windows Defender notification Icon also displays a permanent yellow triangle warning badge to reference the assumed hardware issue.

I am now ignoring the notification icon and so will potentially miss any new, real threats/problems.

If this issue can not be resolved I will have to disable Windows Defender completely as the continuous Warning Badge is mentally nagging me and encouraging me to be complacent about any Windows Defender warnings.

All security/performance software I have previously used has the option to ignore/dismiss or mark as safe any potential threats/issues as they understand it may not actually be a problem for the user.

This is not an option in the Defender Control Centre I can only assume it is either due to poor programming; a failure to predict normal user behaviour or arrogance on the part of Microsoft for expecting customers to only work in line with their
expectations.

 

Windows defender false positive - forced to allow threat


Windows defender has started to identify C:\Windows\System32\mshta.exe as a threat [normally reported as a Trojan Powessere.G]. I use mshta.exe to run an hta custom MsgBox - I have been hoping to keep using my current CustomMsgBox tool [batch file calling a vbs-hta file] until later this year when I hope to have had enough time to replace it with a PowerShell alternative.

Windows defender's notification lets me "allow the threat" but that seems to me to be a bigger security hole than is necessary - it will now ignore a potentially real intrusion when all I want to run is a genuine Windows component. My immediate problem is fixed but I would prefer to fix the false positive using the exclusions list.

I cleared the 'Allowed threats history' so I could use the exclusions list instead. I added C:\Windows\System32\mshta.exe to the file exclusions list and I checked that it had taken properly by checking the exclusions list both in the UI & in the Registry. But the exclusion made no difference, it continued to detect and block the exe.

I have repeated the attempt several times [by clearing the allowed threats list & exclusions list beforehand] and the results are the same every time
- allowing the threat works,
- using the exclusions list has no effect.

I studied the relevant tutorial but have not spotted an error in what I have been doing - Add or Remove Windows Defender Exclusions

Does anybody with experience of using the exclusions list to counter false positives have any suggestions for me?

Denis