Windows 10: Microsoft breaks Windows Defender on Windows 10

Update for Windows Defender broke the antivirus scans on Windows 10, with the antivirus protection software reporting error “Items Skipped During Scan”. For many users, Windows Defender scans are failing after a couple of minutes, confirming that “scan was skipped” and no threats were discovered on the device.

It’s not clear what items were skipped during the scan by Windows Defender and we also don’t know if Microsoft’s antivirus software is able to detect any threats on Windows 10.

It’s possible that Windows Defender warnings are false and scans were performed successfully. In our testing, both manual and automatic scans are failing with the following error message:

Item skipped in scan, due to exclusion setting, or network scanning disabled by admin



Windows Defender version 4.18.2003 or newer apparently introduced this bug when Microsoft was trying to fix other issues. The problem is specific to Windows 10, as other Windows operating systems including Windows 7 and 8 are not affected by this glitch.

“I do get that message with a manual quick scan or with a full scan. It happens whether/not I turn off Cloud-delivered Protection or Controlled Folder Access. I didn’t try the other settings. I’ve got no folder excluded,” one user reported.

“It seems like something caused the notification settings with the latest update to get weird. I did a scan with malwarebytes after and found nothing. I did also do a sfc /scannow and it found a corrupt file which seems to be related to OneDrive but that seems unrelated,” another poster noted in Reddit.

According to the error message, Windows Defender Antivirus scans are skipped due to an item’s exclusion or network scanning settings. Since the exclusion doesn’t appear to be the issue in user reports, it’s likely to be associated with a particular defender update or other updates pushed by Microsoft and device manufacturer.

Microsoft has yet to document problems with Windows Defender, but it appears that the offline scan feature is working without any issues at the moment.

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

What the hell, windows defender?

So, a while back I disabled windows defender via gpedit. Come to find out it's running again, and telling me my miner is a "severe" threat, despite still being disabled in gpedit. There's a few new entries related to windows defender in gpedit that didn't used to be there before. I'm guessing this happened during the big spring update. UAC keeps becoming re-enabled somehow, as well. For now I have a shitty registry key that's supposed to disable windows defender instead, hopefully it works.

Damn, Microsoft. They were pushing users to upgrade to 10 so hard, even resorting to plain trickery to get it on as many machines as possible. Now not only is it doing hardcore data mining in the background, but it's changing settings all on its own to whatever Microsoft wants. One step closer to pushing me to Ubuntu or something. I'd already be there if I didn't think it would be an arduous task learning how to computer all over again while simultaneously breaking a lot of games, which is mostly what I use this computer for...

Bill Gates needs to go back to Microsoft just so he can kick all the guys responsible for w10 squarely in the nuts. /rant

 

Windows Defender Released

Microsoft has released the final version of its Windows Defender anti-spyware utility. Windows Defender is a product of the Microsoft acquisition of GIANT Software. Previously known as Windows AntiSpyware, after a two years beta period it's now available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 under the name Windows Defender. Windows Defender incorporates Real-Time Protection to monitor systems for spyware activity, automated spyware removal with scheduled scans, full integration with Internet Explorer 7.0 and automatic spyware definition updates from Microsoft. Windows Defender is available freely to all customers running a genuine copy of Windows. Microsoft has also announced that customers will each be allowed to report two support incidents for free with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

Source: DailyTech