With Windows Defender feature, admins can configure policies ranging from scanning, real-time monitoring, signature updates to certain advanced ones like cloud protection and more, thereby protecting the systems from malware threats. With Scalefusion MDM, administrators can now configure and push various Windows Defender policies on their managed Windows devices. Or, if you’re the tech support for your friends and family, have them shell out a subscription for a commercial antivirus solution.Microsoft's Windows Defender, now known as Microsoft Defender Antivirus provides real-time protection of Windows devices against software threats like viruses, malware, and spyware across email, apps, cloud, and the web. We still use it here on our machines, but if you want extra piece of mind, you might want to supplement it with a security program like MalwareBytes. However, there have been reports that suggest it isn’t the greatest for stopping all malware. Windows Defender - which is built in to Windows 8 - does a pretty good job for most geeky and responsible users. But since this is such a basic task, you can probably just leave them as the defaults.Īfter making your schedule, click OK twice and you’re done! Windows Defender will scan your system according to the schedule you picked automatically on a regular basis.
There’s also some advanced settings you can tweak if you want to. Choose between daily, weekly, or monthly, the time you want it to start, and how often it occurs. Now here is where you schedule how often a Windows Defender scan runs. In the next dialog that comes up, select the Triggers tab, then the New button. Then at the top middle pane right-click Windows Defender Scheduled Scans then Properties.
From the left pane go to Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Windows > Windows Defender. In Windows 8.1 use the keyboard shortcut Windows Key + W to bring up the Search settings field and type: schedule tasks. To set it up, open Windows Task Scheduler. However, in Windows 8 and 8.1 it isn’t an option in Windows Defender Settings. In previous versions of Microsoft Security Essentials, the option to schedule it to run on a schedule is included.
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