Scan While Logged Out

[Guest]

Will Defender run a scheduled scan if one has the computer powered on, but is
logged out (in other words, no one is logged in)?

 

[Bill Sanderson]

This should work. The scan is initiated by the Windows Scheduled jobs
facility--which must not be disabled--and is run by a command-line app, and
the Windows Defender service--which is a system service run at boot.

So--it should work, and it should even wake from suspend to do it, I
think--I'd love to hear whether it really does!