Windows 10: Windows Defender behavior changed and now blocking almost all Adobe activity.

I can only imagine this is related to a Windows recent update.


I've been doing everything I can to keep up with all the errors in the Event Viewer but everytime I download and install a new Adobe product it hiccups again. While this was troublesome I was dealing with it as I could. Recently it cost me money because it interrupted a one time installation and the Adobe key no longer works. Please help me its now hitting my wallet.


Below are all the programs that caused the Defender issues:






Im running Windows 10 Home edition. have an x64 based system


Again I had no problems with any of this until a recent update. version 1803 was successfully installed on 5/23/2018

2018-19 was successfully installed on 12/20 18. I also noted over 5 updates for Adobe Flash Player.


I saw some input with regard to programs installed directly by the user. I am the only "user" except for Administrator.


The only thing I could come up with was Adobe file locations. Some are in x86 Programs and the rest are in Programs as noted below:


x86 Programs:





Programs:





I dont know where to go with this any longer. Again this is a recent issue, never had a problem with any installations until 2018.


I will look for responses but my direct email is *** Email address is removed for privacy ***.


Your help is greatly appreciated.

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Turn On Windows Defender Block Suspicious Behaviors in Windows 10

The DWORD is set to 0 and I cannot get the process you suggested in the "NOTE" portion of the tutorial to work. Two attached screen shoots will show the before and after attempts to change the Permissions necessary for access to the DWORD change.




Access is denied. (Note-Protected folder in Defender is turned off)

 

Blocking cryptolocker behaviors?

I won't try to discuss the specifics for anything other than Windows Defender, since that's what I have info for.

Defending against ransomware with Windows 10 Anniversary Update

Here are some of the many ways we’re fighting back against ransomware:

• Six of the top 10 ransomware threats use browser, or browser-plugin-related exploits, so we made it harder for malware authors to exploit
  
  Windows 10 and
  Microsoft Edge.
• We increased detection and blocking capability in our email services, increasing the number of ransomware-related attachments being blocked.
• We added new technology to Windows Defender to reduce detection time to seconds, increasing our ability to respond before the infection can occur.

The article goes into more detail for these and others like Windows Defender ATP, which is post-breach response specific to businesses. However, the following paragraphs most relate to changes in Windows Defender itself.

"Machine learning. Enhancements to our cloud infrastructure let our antimalware researchers extend machine learning models in a way that we can identify and block malware more quickly. Before the Anniversary Update, the process of collecting
a suspicious program for analysis, classifying it and responding with protection generally took hours. Now it takes minutes."

"New and improved Windows Defender. Windows Defender, which is enabled by default, can respond to new threats faster using improved cloud protection and automatic sample submission features to

block malware “at first sight”. We’ve also improved Windows Defender’s behavioral heuristics to help determine if a file is performing ransomware-related activities, and then detect and take action more quickly."

Rob

 

windows defender blocking updates and changes to programs

Hi,

You can add the file in the file exclusion list to stop Windows Defender Antivirus
from alerting you or blocking the program. We suggest that you visit this
link on how to add an exclusion to Windows Defender Antivirus.

Let us know if you have any other questions.