Automatic Updates

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Is it possible for defender to automatically update itself instead of doing
it via windows update?

If not is there any way to permit these updates to happen automatically
while still prompting me for other windows updates?
 
no and yes
only if you have Windows update set to automatically update, but then all
your MS Security updates will update
If you want to do WD alone, you can bring up the program and go to the top
where you see the blue ?
Next to it is a down arrow, you can click on it and you will see "Check for
updates"
Here it will automatically install it if there are any updates.
robin
 
There are usually "other options".

If you create a batch program similar in content to this:

@echo off
"C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" -SignatureUpdate

You can then schedule signature update checks to automatically occur
whenever or how frequently you desire using the scheduled task manager.
 
There are more options. The same operation triggered by "check for updates"
can be triggered other ways. One way is to set the option to update
definitions before scheduled scans, and to schedule scans.

Another way is to set up your own scheduled task and have it run the command
line process that does these updates:

mpcmdrun -SignatureUpdate

mpcmdrun will be located where Windows Defender is installed.

You can also create custom scheduling of different types of scans using
mpcmdrun--just run it without any argument i.e. just mpcmdrun and hit
enter--to see the different options.


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Thanks for the help guys.

I am surprised that the updates dun't simply run in the background like most
anti-virus/spam apps do.
 
Bill just looking and it is set to scan daily at 2am and check for updates
before doing so, yet windows update still prompts me to update the defender
files.
 
I'm not sure what is happening in that case. Is the 2 AM scan happening?
Does the WindowsUpdate.log file show the definition check at 2 AM?


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