Windows 10: View Protection History of Windows Defender Antivirus in Windows 10

How to: View Protection History of Windows Defender Antivirus in Windows 10

How to View Protection History of Windows Defender Antivirus in Windows 10


Windows 10 provides the latest antivirus protection with Windows Security. When you start up Windows 10 for the first time, Windows Security is on and actively protecting your device by scanning for malware (malicious software), viruses, and security threats.

Windows Security uses real-time protection to scan your downloads and the programs you run on your device. Also, Windows Update downloads updates for Windows Security automatically to help keep your device safe and protect it from threats.

scan for threats on your device. You can also run different types of scans, see the results of your previous virus and threat scans, and get the latest protection offered by Windows Defender Antivirus.

Protection History in Windows Security allows you to view the latest protection actions and recommendations by Windows Defender Antivirus.

Starting with Windows Defender Offline scanning tool, any detections it makes will now also show in your history. Additionally, you will see any pending recommendations (red or yellow states from throughout the app) in the history list.

This tutorial will show you how to view your threat Protection History in Windows Security for the latest threat protection actions and recommendations by Windows Defender Antivirus in Windows 10.


Here's How:

1. Open Windows Security, and click/tap on the Virus & threat protection icon. (see screenshot below)



2. Click/tap on the Threat history link under Current threats. (see screenshot below)



3. You will now view the latest protection actions and recommendations. (see screenshots below)

*note You can click/tap on the Filters button to select an option to filter your protection history by.








That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to See All Current Threats in Windows Security for Windows 10
• Hide or Show Virus and Threat Protection in Windows Security in Windows 10
• How to Manually Scan Files, Folders, and Drives with Windows Defender in Windows 10
• How to Turn On or Off Tamper Protection for Windows Defender Antivirus in Windows 10

:)

 

The State of Cryptocurrency

According to the reddit page i linked earlier, this is the solution:

• Disable Windows Real-Time Protection
• Disable Cloud-delivered protection
• Copy the .exe back over to the affected machine.
• Add the .exe to the windows 10 defender exclusion list
• Enable windows defender again to see if it would removed it again.
• Startup claymore again.

Here is how to add an exclusion:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...dd-an-exclusion-to-windows-defender-antivirus

 

Windows Defender Antivirus protection

In your previous threads you indicated you were using a third party antivirus program so I assume you are a "new" user of Windows Defender.

Any other security program installed?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...b59cebc4f24/how-to-protect-your-windows-10-pc
Note the statement "If you want to use Windows Defender Antivirus, uninstall all of your other antivirus programs and Windows Defender Antivirus will automatically turn on. You may be asked to restart your device.



Go to Security and Maintenance, look in 'Security' and see what program is listed under Virus Protection. Windows Defender will not be enabled and functioning properly if there is a program other than Windows Defender listed.

See the reply of quietman7 in this thread:windowsdefender wont turn on.

If the issue continues recommend you follow the steps in Problems
starting Windows Defender in Windows 8/8.1/10 to include (but not limited to) running SFC, scanning for malware with programs such as the Emsisoft Emergency Kit or Malwarebytes and running
the software removal tools for any security software (AVG, Kaspersky, McAfee, Norton, whatever) that may have previously been on the computer (to include a trial copy of McAfee or Norton or another program that may have been preinstalled on a new computer).
See List of
anti-malware product removal tools and be sure to restart the computer after running such tools.

You might also want to review http://www.howtogeek.com/220232/how-to-use-the-built-in-windows-defender-antivirus-on-windows-10/ Good
article but ignore the ads!

If you cannot resolve these issues with Windows Defender please post back in this thread with further information.

Regards…

Top 10 Ways PUPs Sneak Onto Your Computer. And How To Avoid Them. | Emsisoft | Security Blog

 

Windows 10: Can't view Windows defender history

Hi Craig,



Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.



Let me assist you on your query regarding Windows defender.



Did you click on the View details option?



Please be informed that if there any malware items found, only then you will see the list of items and you can remove or restore them. If there are no items listed the remove all, remove and restore options will be greyed out.



Reference:

Can't view history details in windows defender



Hope the information helps, do reply if you need further assistance.



Thank you.

 

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?

https://www.av-test.org/en/antiviru...-2017/microsoft-windows-defender-4.12-174847/

28 False Positives in last 2 tests