Welcome back, in today’s video I’ll be showing you how to setup Windows Defender
or Windows Security Antivirus on a Windows 10 PC or laptop.
Windows defender also known as Windows security is the built-in antivirus software in Windows,
and it should be enough to protect you from the threats of viruses in most cases, as long
as you are extremely careful on the internet.
If you want complete protection, I’d probably recommend looking into a third-party antivirus
application.
With that said, today’s video will look at some of the setup options for Windows defender
to make sure you are using it in the correct way.
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We’ll first navigate to the settings where we can access the options for Windows defender.
To do this first go to the main settings page, you can get there by clicking on the cog icon
within the start menu.
In the settings, click on update and security.
In here, click on Windows security from the options on the left side.
On this page, you should see an option called Open Windows Security at the top.
Click on this to open a new window.
The new window that opens should be the Windows security hub.
The list on the left shows all the individual areas for Windows security.
We’ll be focusing mainly on the tab called virus & threat protection so click on that
first.
We’ll go through each of the options on this page, so you fully understand how to
use the tool.
Starting at the top, the first section called current threats is basically the status report
on the previous scan which will display information such as the time of the last scan, the threats
found (if there are any) as well as more detailed information about the scan like the number
of files checked.
You can use this section to verify if there is any action required.
Under this, you can run a quick scan which will be the quickest scan option, however
there are more types of scan to run, depending on how detailed you want the scan to be.
To choose the type of scan, click on scan options.
In here, you can see that there are four types of scan.
The quick scan is the easiest to run and depending on your hardware and the files on your PC,
it shouldn’t take very long.
The full scan will take a lot longer but will be more likely to find any threats, its good
to do a full scan every now and then.
The other two scan options may require a bit more knowledge, so only look into these if
you are confident on what they do, for example you can select individual folders to scan
if you want.
You can start a scan by selecting the type and then by clicking on scan now at the bottom.
Although you may want to look at some of the other settings on the main page, before starting
a scan now.
You can work in the background whilst a scan runs.
Back on the main virus and threat protection page, below the scan options link is the link
called allowed threats.
In here, you can manage some of the threats that you have marked as safe to use despite
a warning.
If you’re PC is new and you haven’t allowed any threats, this section should be empty.
The next section is called protection history and this one is important to monitor.
Within this section, it will display all of the past threats and problems it has discovered,
and you may need to take action on some of these if Windows doesn’t do it automatically.
Again, back on the main page, under the virus and threat protection settings heading, there
is another link to a page with more settings to customize.
You’ll probably want to leave most of these on for the best possible virus protection,
however, look through the description of each and you can decide the best possible setup
for yourself.
Below this on the main page, you can check for updates on the antivirus software.
It should stay updated automatically, but it is important to check this every so often
as outdated virus protection makes your PC much more likely to be compromised.
The final section on the main page is the ransomware protection settings.
You can set up a controlled access folder in here to help minimize the risk of ransomware.
Be careful when changing these settings if you do, as certain folders may need to be
accessed by programs that aren’t necessarily ransomware.
Another area of the settings you might find useful are the notification settings.
Notifications will make sure you know of any threats or results of scans as soon as they
occur.
To get here, click on settings from the options on the left side, it is at the bottom of the
window.
Now click on the blue manage notifications link.
In here there are all of the notification options you can turn on or off.
Of course, there are plenty more settings within the Windows security section to change
and customize so feel free to check these out and if you have any questions then let
me know in the comments.
And so that is how to setup Windows Defender or Windows Security Antivirus on a Windows
10 PC or laptop.
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