Windows 10: Windows Defender Yellow Exclamation

The Windows Defender notification icon has the yellow exclamation mark.


But, for the life of me I can't find anything wrong. And, of course, Windows doesn't elaborate.


Any ideas,

James

:)

 

Windows Defender yellow exclamation mark - but no problems flagged

Unexpected Yellow Warning Symbol on Windows Defender in Windows 10 | Alexanders Blog

This shows 3 ways of getting rid of that annoying yellow !

Edit: Was looking everywhere for this fix. Go to virus and threat protection, click on the arrow next to "windows defender antivirus options" and turn periodic scanning on. A pop up will appear, click yes and then you'll see more options appear. Scroll down the list and you'll see an icon with a red X, you should also see a dismiss button next to it. Click on dismiss to get rid of that yellow exclamation mark. You can then turn periodic scanning off. The same pop-up will appear. Click yes, and then you're all set.

 

Windows Defender has yellow exclamation mark - But there are no problems

Hi Dirk3672,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

I understand your concern, this issue can be easily fixed by changing few settings under Windows defender. I suggest you to follow the steps mentioned below:

1. Open the
Windows Defender Security Center page>Click on Virus & threat protection.

2. Scroll down to
Ransomware Protection and click it.

3. At the bottom, in the Ransomware Data Recovery section, Click on set up OneDrive.

4. Next to that text was a link to Dismiss the notice. Just clicked on that and check if the yellow exclamation is gone.

For more information you can follow the post
answered by
Babble1 on 20 November 2018. If you would like me to provide additional advice, simply respond to this thread. I will get notified and I’ll reply to you as soon as I can.

Hope it helps.

Roohi Taj S

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

Windows Defender yellow exclamation mark - but no problems flagged

It seems to only appear if you are using another antivirus instead of just defender. Most of my customer's are running 1803 at the moment, so I'm not sure if 1809 changed the method of fixing the annoying yellow exclamation point *Huh