

SE Labs also found Defender had a total accuracy rating of 99%, placing it 5th out of a field of 13 in its home anti-malware protection report for Q4 2020 – a very respectable result. And there were better findings from AV-Test, where Microsoft Defender has scored full marks in the past four tests (which took place over the course of 2020).

In AV-Comparatives’ July-October 2020 Real-World Protection Test, Microsoft performed decently with Defender stopping 99.5% of threats, ranking 12th out of 17 antivirus programs (achieving a robust ‘advanced+’ status).

I can readily create my own custom task, but I have to know the location of MpCmdRun.exe which, as I pointed out above, seems to move around.As mentioned, Microsoft Defender is now looked upon as a much stronger contender in the free antivirus world than it was in the past, something that’s clearly reflected in the latest evaluations by the major independent labs that regularly test antivirus apps. I tried whacking on the existing Windows Defender task definitions (in Task Scheduler -> Task Scheduler Library -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Windows Defender), but the tasks periodically modify themselves (after updates, etc.) and my changes are lost. My goal is to create a custom scheduled task for Defender that runs full scans rather than quick scans. 6-0 version, but how would I know this if I hadn't researched? And if I encode some dependency on this location (see below), how would I know when it's been superceded? Per Microsoft, the latest version is the. The folders all have different versions of MpCmdRun.exe. There is an obvious one in "C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" but then two others in "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Platform\.7-0\MpCmdRun.exe" and "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Platform\.6-0\MpCmdRun.exe". Microsoft has multiple versions of the Defender executable (MpCmdRun.exe) installed on my computer.
