I must warn you I don't use powershell much. I am trying to turn off windows defender real time protection via powershell I found the command Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true and t...

My software is a .NET application. The original .exe compiled with Visual Studio works fine and Microsoft Defender has nothing to say about it or any of the dependencies. I made an installer with I...

After Windows updates, there is occurred saved credentials problem, rdp always asks password, cannot be saved.. The reason is Windows Defender Credential Guard. How to solve this issue ?

I just ran into an even more annoying problem. Suddenly windows defender started to flag one of my excel files containing VBA macro code(on download from a browser) as being a virus. The specific v...

We are writing a code to do on-demand scan of a file from C# using Windows Defender APIs. [DllImport(@"C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpClient.dll")] public static extern int WDStatus(out boo...

I made a Python script that mails a Windows directory as zip to me. I added a scheduler using sched module that repeats this every hour. I was attempting to make a simple sync application for perso...

When implementing an IAmsiStream to perform a scan with Windows Defender, on files larger than ~20MBs it fails with Value does not fall within the expected range.. What is missing from this impleme...

I developed a Python code and I converted it to an .exe with pyinstaller but the problem is that there is no publisher so each time a computer runs my program, Windows Defender throws an alert that...

Today I tried to create new react app using (create-react-app app-name) in CMD and this error appeared : PS C:\Users\ahmed\Desktop\My File\New Folder\New Folder JS\New Folder> create-react-app...

I was checking out different keyloggers for research purposes and stumbled upon Refog: https://www.refog.com/keylogger/ This program could catch a lot of system events, but what really caught my ...

Context I have setup a trivial Electron app which shows a plain html file and it consistently takes more than two seconds to start up. The key performance measurements are: 170 ms: a blank window ...

I would like a Express REST API to be accessible over a LAN. From what I understand I will need to make some changes in my firewall to allow this access. I managed to solve this checking the second...

Our organization recently obtained an EV code signing certificate. It did give us instant SmartScreen trust, but 2 things still happen: A minor annoyance was Chrome that issued a warning file.exe ...

I am working on a windows application. After creating the installer file i.e. MSI, it gets installed and works perfectly however, once i upload it on cloud server and try downloading it from there ...

This may be specific to Windows Defender, or it may be more generally applicable to more AV products on Windows. What it definitely is specific to is "compiled" Application development, h...

Since past two months or so I have been observing a strange phenomenon with the Real Time Protection Service that comes bundled in as a part of Windows Defender on Windows 10. When this service i...

Reading the documentation of the windows defender API, for example in MpManagerOpen Function: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn920115(v=vs.85).aspx I see that the requi...

I excluded the follwing folders in windows defender, but the "Antimalware Service executable" is still using a lot of cpu. C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio C:\Users\ME\.android C:\Users\ME...

I've got an application written with C# which is installed via InnoSetup. With enabled Controlled Folder Access of Windows 10's Defender, the setup fails to create a desktop icon (showing the mess...