First thing that comes to mind would be third-party add-on security applications interfering ? On my own systems and on others systems that I...
@Krusty, since I can't remember if you are on Windows 10 Home, then I better add that you can also use PowerShell to activate instead of the GPOs...
You mean where to activate them ? I have posted about it here
In the new Windows Defender Exploit Guard, the Attack Surface Reduction rules, Network Protection and Controlled Folder Access are all parts of...
There's really nothing to worry about. This feature runs Default-deny. And it doesn't care if offending process has user or admin privileges....
BleepingComputer has 10 fresh tweets from yesterday about it, starting here : https://mobile.twitter.com/BleepinComputer/status/922584550978531328...
All Windows Defender logs are in Event Viewer. Event Viewer > Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > Windows Defender Antivirus....
Yes. I have the two new enhanced detection levels in Windows Defender activated. High+ on one pc and Zero Tolerance on another so far. I also...
Stopping ransomware where it counts: Protecting your data with Controlled folder access Link :...
Windows Defender Exploit Guard: Reduce the attack surface against next-generation malware Link :...
Also, the latest Locky ransomware variant using DDE - blocked by Attack Surface Reduction rules :...
Whenever a Attack Surface Reduction rule are triggered, there's a notification in Action Center and also a log entry made in Event Viewer. So you...
You are welcome, @Djigi :) As far as I can see from your posts, you have activated all the new features now. The only thing I didn't see you...
It has been a long time since font parsing was done in kernel mode. Dropping the “Untrusted Font Blocking” setting Good advice. :thumb: Also -...
It would be nice to see all these powerful settings in the UI. But for now, Group Policy and PowerShell are needed to configure settings. There...
Yes, of course. You are correct, that list are available. :thumb: I misunderstood @fmon 's post as a search for a blog post that in detail went...
No vendor - first-party or third-party - are going to publish information about their engines internal logic, since the bad guys reads along on...
Yes, you can tailor the update settings exactly to your needs. There are also settings for update source, boot time update and much more. Windows...
Also remember the four features in Windows Defender Exploit Guard : Exploit Protection, Attack Surface Reduction rules, Network Protection and...
Microsoft fixed that a long time ago in build 15031. We are now on build 16299.19 :)
In Fall Creators Update, there have been added even more knobs to Windows Defender and there are now two even stronger levels. Now we have : -...
I guess you meant 1709 FCU, but I agree. The Fall Creators Update runs perfect here and the update was silky smooth. Took one of the non-insider...
As @Djigi mentions in post above, AV-Comparatives have also published their September 2017 False Positive test :...
AV-Comparatives has factsheet and chart online for their September 2017 test results :...
In addition to all the great Ignite sessions mentioned in this post :...
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