From the course: Practical Cybersecurity for IT Professionals
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Detecting malware with Microsoft Defender
From the course: Practical Cybersecurity for IT Professionals
Detecting malware with Microsoft Defender
- We can see from the virus and threat protection screen that there are no current threats. And, the last scan was conducted on the 7th of March. Further down, we can see that the last update of signatures was on the 8th of March. If the software and signature files haven't been updated for a while, we might want to click on the check for update button and the program check the Microsoft website for updates and download any that are available. The update can take a while. And, in any case, we're pretty much up to date, so we don't need to do that right now. Before we look any further at the defender interface, let's see how it reacts to detecting a virus under normal operating conditions. The European Institute for computer antivirus research provides a non-viral string of code that is detected by all antivirus software as a check that the antivirus is working. This is known as the EICAR string. I've typed the EICAR string…
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