Newer versions of Windows Defender moves files it considers suspicious to the quarantine without user confirmation. That is currently the default behavior. At first, I thought of this only as a minor inconvenience. But the feedback I received from many users is that once a file is quarantined there is no guarantee of getting it …
Have Windows Defender moved your safe, trusted files to the quarantine thinking that it is a virus? Here is how to get them back. Newer versions of Windows Defender moves files it considers suspicious to the quarantine without user confirmation. In my case, it sent some macro files which I wrote many years ago to …
If you are facing false positive issues in Windows Defender, you can add the file or folder in question to Windows Defender’s exclusion list. Windows Defender exclusions can also be useful in fixing some performance issues. Windows Defender does not play nicely with certain processes and slows them down significantly, process exclusions can help in …
