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Microsoft has released an update to fix that behavior, see Update KB4052623: Microsoft fixes Defender ScanSkip Bug. See also the marked answer.
Windows Defender, "Items Skipped During Scan"
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I keep getting this notification after quick scans, "Windows Defender skipped an item due to exclusions or network protection settings."
To make this clear: I don't have ANY exclusions, and as far as I'm aware, I haven't changed my network protection settings in the past.
What's going on? Is this malware, or a bug with the new update? How do I fix this? I want to be reassured that I'm safe, this isn't very reassuring.
EDIT: Thank you to Techradar for bringing this issue to light. If any employees read this, could you perhaps re-title it in a way which doesn't make users feel so endangered by the bug? All of us have come to the conlusion that (especially with MBAM) we should be clear.
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Anonymous
2020-03-18T16:25:13+00:00 The issue was not resolved. Any other suggestions
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Anonymous
2020-03-19T17:16:11+00:00 Hi Greg,
Due to your expertise can I talk to you elsewhere in the community please regarding Updates in Version 1809 (which I'm on) & Upgrade to 1909 ? (not directly related to the exclusion issue)
Regarding the exclusion issue I see there are others in this thread who have the Exclusion issue and on 1909. I haven't been able to get the Patch Tuesday Updates for February & March so the issue can't be within them, however I have got all the latest Defender Platform updates and the issue exists in the last three. If I run a custom scan from the command line & include -DisableRemediation the scan runs OK
Thanks,
Paul
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Anonymous
2020-03-20T03:07:30+00:00 I'm also having this problem
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Anonymous
2020-03-20T05:24:45+00:00 That "items skipped" message doesn't bother me. All else looks good running the manual scan.
But I haven't seen a notification that Defender has run automatically in quite a while. That worries me. All the settings for it look good, & Defender still says "no action needed", though...