Oh boy. You know that unpublicized Windows Defender patch that fixed the “Items skipped during scan” bug? There are two reports on Reddit already abou
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AskWoody_MVPMarch 25, 2020 at 10:24 am #2210784There are two reports on Reddit already about bugs in the new version.
Those two reports don’t mention “the new version”.
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AskWoody PlusMarch 25, 2020 at 1:58 pm #2210842I am running Win 10 1903 Build 18362.657
Clicking on the update History of any installed Defender Platform update (KB4052623) takes you a description of version 4.18.1901.7 – Last updated Mar 25, 2020
My Update History shows these installations:
02/04/2020 KB4052623 Version 4.18.2001.7
02/27/2020 KB4052623 Version 4.18.2001.10
03/20/2020 KB4052623 Version 4.18.2003.6This one is waiting to be installed:
03/25/2020 KB4052623 Version 4.18.2003.8
Which version of KB4052623 is reporting the Defender error: “Unexpected error. Sorry, we ran into a problem. Please try again.”
Does anyone know the answer?
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AskWoody PlusMarch 31, 2020 at 5:01 pm #2212777No. Millions have installed it without any issues.
Born discussion left it up in air:
https://www.borncity.com/blog/2020/03/25/update-kb4052623-microsoft-fixt-defender-scan-skip-bug/:W10Pro and W11Pro 22H2
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