Windows Defender Offline Scan Still Works The results suggest, but don't confirm, that an update earlier this month caused the glitch. Some users have tried reinstalling Windows from scratch and applying all the updates. While that's not been proven yet, Windows Defender appears to still be working fine in Windows 7 and 8.
There's a widespread assumption that the problem is the latest example of a Windows 10 update introducing problems. It's also possible the error message is a mistake and the scans are working fine. The message isn't proving particularly helpful as it's not clear what items are actually being skipped. Such as: "Items skipped during scan: The Windows Defender Antivirus scan skipped an item due to exclusion or network scanning settings." In other cases, the error message reports that the entire scan was skipped. There's a workaround forĮxactly what's causing the problem isn't yet clear, but some users are finding both manual and automatic scans produce messages Windows 10's built-in security tool Windows Defender has stopped working properly for some users.
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