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Windows Defender SNAFU: “Items skipped during scan”

Posted on March 22, 2020 at 07:36 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

Günter Born is chasing an odd bug (at least, it looks like a bug).

In Win10, when you run a scan in Windows Defender, it may tell you

But there’s no indication of which items were skipped, or how or why. And many people are saying they haven’t told Defender to skip anything.

Looks like the bug’s been out for a couple of weeks. Anybody have any guesses?

Windows Patches/Security Items skipped during scan, Windows Defender

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