Using the Settings App, return to the Windows Defender page as detailed above. To locate the results of a Windows Defender scan, run Windows Defender. Once the scan is complete, your machine will reboot again, returning to your normal Windows installation. If anything is found, it’ll be dealt with and reported.
It will then automatically perform a scan of your machine.
Your machine will reboot and then automatically run Windows Defender Offline. On the resulting page, scroll down to locate the Windows Defender Offline section. Make sure any open documents are saved and any running programs or applications closed. On the resulting page, click on Windows Defender in the left-hand column. In the Settings app, click on Update and security. Windows Defender Offline is already installed in Windows 10.Ĭlick on the Start menu, and then the gear icon in the left-hand column, to run the Settings app. Windows Defender Offline is, effectively, the same Windows Defender anti-malware tool that comes with Windows 10.
MSE was renamed Windows Defender in Windows 8, 8.1 and 10. A separate tool called “Windows Defender Offline” (WDO), which was actually equivalent to MSE, could be downloaded for Windows versions up to and including Windows 7. Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), a tool that scanned for all types of malware, could be downloaded, and replaced Windows Defender when installed. Windows Defender was the name of a tool that only scanned for spyware, and not other forms of malware, that ran in Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. It’s important to understand exactly which “Defender” we’re talking about, since Microsoft continues to confuse us with their choice of product names. Without needing to download anything, you can boot your computer into “Windows Defender Offline” – a copy of Windows 10’s built-in anti-malware tool, running in a separate, isolated, dedicated copy of Windows 10. Windows 10 actually built in this capability. Once running, this isolated operating system can run anti-malware tools that are much more likely to resolve the issue. One of the most common solutions in the past has been to boot your computer from a DVD or USB drive that contains its own operating system, bypassing both Windows and the malware that might be interfering. Occasionally, malware prevents your anti-malware tools from running, or is designed in such a way that anti-malware tools may not be able to actually eradicate the infection while Windows is running.
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