Windows 10: Where do you see the result of the scanning with Microsoft Defender for offline mode?

Where do you see the result of the scanning with Microsoft Defender for offline mode?

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Microsoft Defender Offline Scan

Restored the Macrium Image and got my Recovery partitions back:






So as expected, I had a bunch of updates to do:





After the updates, I gave Microsoft Defender Offline a try and it worked!









And this just shows that I'm back at the latest version build of 20H2:





This one was my fault and I admit I was the culprit of my own troubles. It was just a coincidence that I used Partition Wizard around the same time the Cumulative Updates were going on from Oct 28th to November 11th and it gave me the suspicion to suspect them being responsible for the Offline scan problem.

I mean who the heck would of ever thought that a Recovery Partition would have anything to do with an Offline Scan in an Online world?

A special thanks to OldNavyGuy for his suggestion that a Windows Recovery Partition being deleted was the problem.

 

Windows Defender Offline Scan results?

Ok. I found the log file for a Windows Defender Offline Scan.

It's a MPLog-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.log file located in the C:\Windows\Microsoft Antimalware\Support folder.

You will notice D:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Offline Scanner towards the top in the opened log file.

 

I run Microsoft Defender Offline Scan on Windows 11, but there are no results. Why?

Hi avocadoEpicure,

Thank you for reaching Microsoft Community. We appreciate for sharing your concern to us.

When your computer is infected with rootkits or other extremely persistent malware, Windows Security (formerly known as Windows Defender Security Center in earlier versions of Windows) will alert you and suggest using Microsoft Defender Offline.

You'll be prompted that you're about to be signed out of Windows. After you are, your PC should restart. Microsoft Defender Offline will load and perform a quick scan of your PC in the recovery environment. When the scan has finished (usually takes about 15 minutes), your PC will automatically restart. If you have the patience, you may see every step that the scanner takes. The status of the scan is reported at the scan's bottom. You'll see that it "completed successfully". You can view information in the Windows Defender history, and if nothing is there, you are safe.

To see the Microsoft Defender Offline scan results:

1. Select Start , and then select Settings > Update & Security > Windows Security > Virus & threat protection .
   
2. On the Virus & threat protection screen in Windows 10, under Current threats, select Scan options, and then select Protection history (In previous versions of Windows it may say Threat history).
   

Kind regards,

Lavenia