Windows 10: Virus and Protection Full Scan says a threat exists start actions. Action button does nothing.

Discus and support Virus and Protection Full Scan says a threat exists start actions. Action button does nothing. in AntiVirus, Firewalls and System Security to solve the problem; I have an issue where a full scan and offline scan has been completed, finding a threat. Pressing start actions starts nothing. Threat history shows... Discussion in 'AntiVirus, Firewalls and System Security' started by IvanRoberts, Nov 4, 2018.

  1. IVANROBERTS
    IvanRoberts Win User

    Virus and Protection Full Scan says a threat exists start actions. Action button does nothing.


    I have an issue where a full scan and offline scan has been completed, finding a threat. Pressing start actions starts nothing. Threat history shows no threat.

    Windows defender shield stays in the red however as per snapshot. Please advise a corrective cause.

    This all started when trying to overcome a Antimalware Service Execution CPU overload issue. Virus and Protection Full Scan says a threat exists start actions. Action button does nothing. 8e98a834-d393-4fa2-8b8e-f422b9faa6a5?upload=true.png

    Virus and Protection Full Scan says a threat exists start actions. Action button does nothing. b7211ccc-6518-4497-8f61-b5ba10aa25e0?upload=true.png

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    IvanRoberts, Nov 4, 2018
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  2. CHATMAN99
    Chatman99 Win User

    Windows Defender "Start Actions" Button Not Working

    Windows Defender is telling me "Virus & threat protection. Threats found. Start the recommended actions." There is a button below, which says "Start actions". Clicking this button has no effect. Should I just ignore it?

    I'm on Windows 10 Pro, version 1703.
     
    Chatman99, Nov 4, 2018
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  3. BRI WRI
    Bri Wri Win User
    2 windows 10 alert messages of "virus protection is currently not on," and "windows defener action needed to do a virus scan,"

    while on a website I get the warning my virus protection is not on, I got to defender and it is on. and on occasion I get an action recommended, with a exclamation mark triangle on the windows defender icon on the task bar. so I open that and there's the
    warning triangle on the "virus and threat protection" and it has a last scheduled scan being a couple weeks old but the windows defender security system window says "your device is being protected" and a daily update and scan are listed:

    last threat scan 1-14-2018

    last threat definition update 1/28/2018

    last health scan 1/28/2018

    virus & threat protection has Quick scan due.....(why?) isn't that all automatic?

    thank you.
     
    Bri Wri, Nov 4, 2018
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  4. DR. P
    Dr. P Win User

    Virus and Protection Full Scan says a threat exists start actions. Action button does nothing.

    Windows Defender "Start Actions" Button Not Working

    The Windows Defender Tool is almost unusable and has an ineffective GUI because I cannot save the results of the scan to a file and because the "Start action" button does not remove them or say why it will not remove them.

    Problem noticed after running a full system scan that took nearly 60 hours to finish.

    Several threats found. Note: found 34 threats, but does not show total number of files scanned (more than 120 M observed while running from progress screen).

    "Start actions" button does not perform any actions.

    The button does respond to a mouse click event and the screen refreshes, but no threats are removed.

    Bigger problem is the results are shown only on screen with no option to save results to a text file. After reboot how do I find them to be able to remove them?

    So how do I remove these threats? Do I simply delete the files?

    This product does not appear to work correctly. Looking down at the bottom of the report a comment indicates "Last scan (quick scan)" and it shows that 34 threats were found with 101263 files scanned. So how many were removed, if any?
     
    Dr. P, Nov 4, 2018
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