{"id":13815,"date":"2020-03-25T09:17:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T08:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=13815"},"modified":"2020-03-25T11:16:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T10:16:50","slug":"update-kb4052623-microsoft-fixes-defender-scan-skip-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/03\/25\/update-kb4052623-microsoft-fixes-defender-scan-skip-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Update KB4052623: Microsoft fixes Defender Scan Skip Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"

[German<\/a>]Microsoft has released the update KB4052623 for the Windows Defender anti-malware platform for Windows 10 on March 24, 2020. This update also fixes the irritating message that files were skipped during a scan.<\/p>\n

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What is the Defender scanning problem?<\/h2>\n

\"\"Since several weeks some Windows 10 users have been experiencing a strange effect when scanning their systems using Windows Defender. Although the scan is successful, at the end of the process the virus scanner reports skipped items during the scan. The following message is then displayed.<\/p>\n

Windows Defender skipped an item due to exclusions or network protection settings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Defender:<\/p>\n

I had covered the case in more detail in the blog post Windows 10: Defender skips elements during scan<\/a>. Since the affected users did not define exclusions for scanning, much indicated a problem with the network scan.<\/p>\n

I then proved in the blog post Windows 10: Fix for skipped Defender scans<\/a> that the skipped files are elements of the network scan. This was also useful, since scans of network shares create an unnecessary load.<\/p>\n

In the blog post I had advised to ignore the message for the time being, but at the same time I had specified workarounds to change this behavior. At the same time, I had reported the issue to Windows Update (Microsoft's Twitter channel) with a link to my English blog post.<\/p>\n

Update KB4052623 fixes the Bug<\/h2>\n

Already this morning I received a mail from blog reader Hans Th\u00f6len, who informed me about a new update:<\/p>\n

Today I had on Windows Update the update for Windows Defender KB4052623 on offer. I have installed it. Then I reset the setting for scanning network files to not configured. With 2 times executed scans only the notification about the scan progress was displayed.<\/p>\n

The notification of skipping did not appear both times. It seems that Microsoft has fixed the bug with this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also German blog reader left this comment<\/a>, pointing out, that update KB4052623 raised the Antimalware-Scan-Engine to version 4.18.2003.8 and that the toast notification about skipped elements during a scan has been vanished. Got also a third comment<\/a> from reader Pater with a similar observation. Thanks to all readers for the hints.<\/p>\n

Update KB4052623 for Defender<\/h2>\n

Update KB4052623<\/a> (Update for Windows Defender Antimalware Platform) is available for the following operating systems.<\/p>\n