Managing Windows Defender Antivirus
Microsoft Defender Antivirus is the next-generation protection component of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Defender Antivirus provides antivirus and antimalware facilities. The product also does some packet analysis to detect network-level attacks.
The Windows installation process installs Defender on Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2022 by default. You can subsequently remove Defender should you wish. For more details on Defender in Windows Server, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/defender-endpoint/microsoft-defender-antivirus-on-windows-server?view=o365-worldwide.
Testing any antivirus or antimalware application can be difficult. On the one hand, you want to ensure that the product, Defender, in this case, is working. But at the same time, you don’t want to infect a server. One solution is to create a test file. The European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research (EICAR) has created a...
