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Then, in the Windows Defender Security Center, open the Virus & threat protection tab from the left. To run an offline scan, we recommend to close all open documents and running programs. The feature Windows Defender Offline scanning helps removing nasty rootkits and stealth malware that hide themselves before or after Windows starts.
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How to perform an Offline scan with Windows Defender ? If the same malware still reappears, please contact the CERN service-desk with email: call 77777) or contact your IT Local support. It is strongly recommended to reboot the device. In some cases, a restart is required to remove all traces of malicious software. Also, a notification will appear above Taskbar Notification Area (System Tray), stating that Windows Defender Antivirus found threats.Īlternatively, click or tap the See threat details link to review what has been found The cleanup process might take a few minutes to complete on slower devices. User must wait until the scan is completed to see details on the detected malwares.Īfter the scan finishes, click the Clean threats button to quarantine/deleted the detected items.
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Full scan might take several hours to complete. Then click the Advanced scan link.Ĭhoose the Full scan option and click Scan now. In Windows Defender Security Center, open the Virus & threat protection tab from the left.
To scan a specific file, group of files, folder or drive with Windows Defender, user can use the Right-Click Context Menu option. The easiest way to run a scan is the good old right-click menu.
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How to perform a manual scan with Windows Defender ?
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Update the protection ("definition updates")
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The following images compare the location of settings and functions between the old and new windows Defender Interface.Īfter Windows 10 build version 1703, 1709 You can easily found these Settings using the following images. The Windows Defender desktop program is still there, named Windows Defender Antivirus, but all settings are now inside this modern application interface.Ĭomparison of settings and functions of the old Windows Defender and the new Windows Defender interface.Īll of the previous functions and settings from the Windows Defender (Windows 10 before version 1703) are now found in the new Windows Defender Security Center interface.
Windows 10 Creators Update build 1703 and Higher (published in April 2017) introduces the new Windows Defender Security Center interface.