[German]Has anyone noticed the problem with Defender in Windows 10 that the virus protection suddenly loses defined exclusions for scans? Here is some information on this issue.
Background information: I received a mail from the German heise editorial team informing me about an observation, a reader made. Its a strange behavior in Windows Defender. Since there were only on e mention within the Internet yet, I am posting it here in the blog in consultation with heise. The reader Rene S. describes the following observation on October 23, 2020 (translated):
Exclusions in Windows Defender disappeared
Hello dear heise editorial team,
I noticed today that with Windows Defender all my exclusions have disappeared or are no longer visible. Also it is not possible to create new exclusions. In the latter case there is no error message, but after confirmation nothing is displayed, as if you had not done anything.
Antimalware client version: 4.18.2010.4
module version: 1.1.17500.4
Antiviren-Version: 1.325.1286.0
Antispyware-Version: 1.325.1286.0However, I myself suspect that the exclusions are not completely gone, they are just not apparent. Because after a quick scan today, the obligatory message “Items skipped during scan”, which actually only appears when exclusions are added, was displayed after the process was completed.
So far I could only find a thread about this topic in the forum of deskmodder.de from October 22nd, 2020, which also reports about it but no solution.
I have Windows 10 myself and yesterday I updated to 20H2. But I think the problem is not Windows itself but Windows Defender.
In the discussion at deskmodder.de it turns out that it might be the Defender update of the anti-malware client version: 4.18.2010.4. The problem seems to be still continuing. Anyone of you who has the problem and can confirm it?