Hi
Often when I boot my computer I get a notice that says "Windows Defender needs to scan your system" in the Action Center.
When I click on the message, sometimes it takes me to the Windows Defender Window, where it says that everything is up to date my computer is clean and no action needs to be taken (sometimes it just takes me to a general Windows management window with no sign of Defender in site.
I've never yet gone there and had it say, to run a scan, I do it sometimes anyway but it never wants me to do that.
In addition, I always check the History tab.
In years it has never said that it found and quarantined anything?
If it's really doing something wouldn't it have found something in all this time?
Today I had the same thing, I went to the Defender window and clicked on the Update tab, when I clicked Update Definitions it suddenly said that Defender was shut off and told me to restart it, and everything turned red.
It wouldn't restart, but once I went to Windows Update and ran update from there is all went back to normal.
I haven't run a third party Antivirus for many years, other then Malwarebytes, and an occasional scan with SuperAntiSpyware, but I've never had any malware problems.
But it really makes me wonder what defender is really doing. LOL
Mike
Often when I boot my computer I get a notice that says "Windows Defender needs to scan your system" in the Action Center.
When I click on the message, sometimes it takes me to the Windows Defender Window, where it says that everything is up to date my computer is clean and no action needs to be taken (sometimes it just takes me to a general Windows management window with no sign of Defender in site.
I've never yet gone there and had it say, to run a scan, I do it sometimes anyway but it never wants me to do that.
In addition, I always check the History tab.
In years it has never said that it found and quarantined anything?
If it's really doing something wouldn't it have found something in all this time?
Today I had the same thing, I went to the Defender window and clicked on the Update tab, when I clicked Update Definitions it suddenly said that Defender was shut off and told me to restart it, and everything turned red.
It wouldn't restart, but once I went to Windows Update and ran update from there is all went back to normal.
I haven't run a third party Antivirus for many years, other then Malwarebytes, and an occasional scan with SuperAntiSpyware, but I've never had any malware problems.
But it really makes me wonder what defender is really doing. LOL
Mike