To do that, click on “Run a new advanced scan”.Ī Full scan is your best choice 99% of the time. For bonus credit, once every so often (maybe monthly) run a deep scan that’s more comprehensive. 37,539 files scanned without a problem encountered. Once the scan’s done, you will hopefully receive a report similar to this: Have a quick glimpse at the last update date for the Virus & threat protection updates too, while you’re at it not much benefit to scan against an outdated virus definition file! How to do it? Oh, come on, you can see the darn button!! Click on “ Scan now” to proceed…Īs you would hope, quick scans are pretty darn speedy, often less than a minute.
It’s pretty easy to see that your account protection is good, your firewall and network protection are also good, but it’s time for a quick scan in the virus & threat protection. Simply click on it to resolve the warning (it’s a yellow triangle with the exclamation mark, just like you’d see on a road sign) and you’ll launch right into Windows Defender: Your TaskBar is probably not quite that big, however. To start out, here’s what I’m guessing you see on your TaskBar: A few clicks, however, and you’ll be running a Quick Scan and hopefully finding that your computer has a clean bill of digital health! You can set it up to run automatically every 3am but a lot of people don’t leave their computers on 24×7 which means that just never happens. Of course, it doesn’t do much good if you don’t run it at least sporadically and that’s the problem you’re hitting. Even better, it includes ransomware protection (if you turn it on) and it’s free as part of Windows 10!
Which is good it’s the anti-virus software included with Windows 10 and every time your system checks for Windows updates it also grabs new virus definitions. No surprise, the shield icon is generally used in Windows to denote antivirus and anti-malware programs and in this case, I’m guessing that it’s actually Microsoft Windows Defender that’s involved.
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