Recent content by echo2446

Hi Chris, I do encrypt sensitive files with 7z on Windows 11 all the time, on top of the BitLocker encryption. This is insurance against malware or unauthorized access to my machine that doesn't manage to compromise my password manager too. Why on top of BitLocker encryption? Because it's...

Your ass is ours, but here's a bone.

Does "Protection history" say what it detected? I downloaded the portable beta version from SourceForge, checked it with VirusTotal, which was flagged, most likely heuristically, by a vendor, but the rest was green, including "Microsoft." Window defender didn't delete what I downloaded.

This is about right. I am running a "Grandpa's computer" and don't play games at all. All I care about is that the AV provides good protection, doesn't take RAM away from the web browser, and doesn't churn the SSD so much. A slow scan isn't even an issue because it hardly affects the slow web...

Yeah, me too. I used it for over a decade until I couldn't stand the memory usage anymore. For free stuff, it's still one of the best. If my system had 32GB of RAM, there's a good chance I'd go back to it. Since you are not troubled and you already like it, I wouldn't bother moving away from it...

I ran both Avast Free and Bitdefender Free on my 16GB RAM Windows 11 system before, but I didn't like how they used up memory and was concerned about Bitdefender's large updates. I didn't experience intolerable performance degradation with either (except with the memory, which I had to reboot)...

It's probably scanning the files, but why? Event viewer (filtered by source: Windows Defender) may give some information. Event ID 1000 is the start of a scan, and 1001 is the end of the (successful?) scan.

Keep in mind that with EFS, other people can't read the content, but they can still see other file's attributes (name, dates, etc.) If you need to hide that too, use Veracrypt (or Cryptomator in some cases). Best protection against file theft may be per-file encryption like...

If you are referring to using Windows' "Encrypt contents to secure data" feature (NTFS Encrypting File System), available in Windows Pro editions, the answer is no; you cannot access the encrypted contents using the same account name with the same password. To read the encrypted contents using...

That's what I am afraid of. "Fail" (works as designed) randomly. I tried putting in a bunch of triggers in the schedule to see if one of them would succeed; none has yet. I suspect that this would, at some point, probably on conditions like "There has been no successful scan for at least a...

An extra question. If you run the same scan again now, does it run to completion?

The update history under "Definition Updates" is not matching what is shown in the "Protection Updates" screen in "Windows security -> Virus & Threat Protection". The info on the screen shows a later version: Security intelligence version: 1.423.187.0 Version created on: 2025-03-02 05:35 Last...

Yes, it's failing. Here's the console output: Here's the relevant section from the MpCmdRun.log file: Here's a successful run from the differently created schedule mentioned before:

Ran the commands that you suggested, then triggered the entry manually. Same result: 2147942402.

Thanks for the reply. I am already doing that, but it runs unreliably. I just end up creating another schedule job with the action: "c:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" Scan -ScanType 1 which doesn't use whatever exit/non-scan algorithm that Microsoft's scheduled task is using...