

Microsoft has yet to document problems with Windows Defender, but it appears that the offline scan feature is working without any issues at the moment. Since the exclusion doesn’t appear to be the issue in user reports, it’s likely to be associated with a particular defender update or other updates pushed by Microsoft and device manufacturer. I did also do a sfc /scannow and it found a corrupt file which seems to be related to OneDrive but that seems unrelated,” another poster noted in Reddit.Īccording to the error message, Windows Defender Antivirus scans are skipped due to an item’s exclusion or network scanning settings.

I did a scan with malwarebytes after and found nothing. “It seems like something caused the notification settings with the latest update to get weird. I’ve got no folder excluded,” one user reported. It happens whether/not I turn off Cloud-delivered Protection or Controlled Folder Access. “I do get that message with a manual quick scan or with a full scan. The problem is specific to Windows 10, as other Windows operating systems including Windows 7 and 8 are not affected by this glitch. So today i went to put WDO back on the USB stick and ran into some problems. I recently formatted the USB stick that had WDO on it to use for a different purpose. Windows Defender version or newer apparently introduced this bug when Microsoft was trying to fix other issues. i've used windows defender offline for scanning win7 PC's for sometime and found it to be a very useful tool.
