Windows Defender, "Items Skipped During Scan"

What is bizarre is the fact that it doesnt indicate which attempted file was skipped.  This lends to concern as I expected it would show which file it was so that I could confirm.

I agree and that's what I critizise - it's not really transparent for users and it would have been better, if MS has communicated that move in a blog post (we read blog posts about new icons, but we don't get any hint about such a change). Anyhow, hope my explanation given within my blog post made things now clear and transparent.

After discussing this behavior within my blog Windows 10: Defender skips elements during scan, the reason for the message became clear. Defender avoids to scan network files (I postulate, that Microsoft has changed that recently). 

You can ignore the warning - or you may use the workaround discussed within my blog post Windows 10: Fix for skipped Defender scans

HTH

Wow, that worked for me (Fix #1) on my Windows 10 VM. I am going to try it elsewhere (may try Fix #3 instead). Thanks!

But please read my article twice. The 1st edition was a quick shot deeply this night (here in Germany) to uncover the reason for this behavior. In the morning, after some sleep, I updated the article with further details. Scanning network shares is causing additional and senseless traffic, that could lead to trouble in bigger network environments. That's probably the reason, why Microsoft's developers has changed the behavior. Details and explanations may be found within my blog post.

I was certainly caught by this and I have been diligently trying to resolve the reason.  Now you tell me Microsoft made this change.  I am concerned that they made a change that makes all of us think there is a problem when there really is not.  Perhaps the message should say something like, Defender skips network files by design.  However, this makes me think that now hackers have a new target and because Defender does not scan these files, it will NEVER be found until it is too late.

Personally, Im wondering about all those WD bugs and issues....

I'm using a 3rd party product, so I don't know if people posting here in Microsoft Community do indeed have problems with WD or are just kind of 'overreacting' on whatever WD glitches...

When I got a new PC with Win 10 a few months ago, I used WD for about a week.

Unfortunately I verrrry soon ran into all kinds of (minor) issues with WD such as WD seemingly building hurdles to whatever I wanted to do and it wouldn't reliable auto-update/-scan etc etc etc.

Reading some threads here in Microsoft Community, I'm really often surprised about alll those really weird 'threat' handling (or not?) messages users are asking about...

Judging by the threads here in MC, WD does not seem to be the most 'user-friendly' 'AV'-program....

I have to agree about WD.  I have been a faithful user of WD since its inception.  However, in light of the recent problems MS has had with windows update issues, I don't feel particularly comfortable in continuing with this product.  Last week, I switched to another AV product and thus far have been well satisfied.  However, only time will tell if this new product "makes the grade."