What is Defender blocking

[Michelle]

Defender alerts me that it is blocking some start-up programs (little yellow
speech-bubble in sys-tray says "Click here to see which programs are being
blocked").

When I click the alert it opens Defender, but there is no indication of
which program has been blocked. How can I find out?

thanks

M

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Michelle,

In Windows Defender, click on Tools/Quarantined Items.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Paul Smith]

Defender alerts me that it is blocking some start-up programs (little
yellow speech-bubble in sys-tray says "Click here to see which programs
are being blocked").

When I click the alert it opens Defender, but there is no indication of
which program has been blocked. How can I find out?

Right-click on the icon in the System Tray and one of the options is
something like see blocked programs, that'll open a new menu showing what
program has been blocked. If it looks safe you can run it.

Typically in 90% of cases its msconfig being blocked after making a change,
in which case its best to run it.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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