Hello all!
Please forgive me in advance for what might be considered a dumb question, I'm not very computer savvy.
I'm on windows 8.1 64bit and I use windows defender with the latest definitions. I've never encountered anything during my weekly regular full scans, but lately I get a message during scan saying that preliminary scan results show that malicious or potentially unwanted software may exist on the computer. It follows by saying that detected items can be reviewed after scan has finished, but once it's over I only get the usual message that the computer is protected and that there are no found items, quarantined or otherwise.
I get this warning during every scan (only full scans though, not while scanning each disk individually), but no items are ever found. Malwarebytes found a few bloat ware-ish registry entries that were quarantined, nothing malicious, but defender still flags during scans yet ends up finding nothing.
Need I do anything more about this?
Thanks for your time.
Please forgive me in advance for what might be considered a dumb question, I'm not very computer savvy.
I'm on windows 8.1 64bit and I use windows defender with the latest definitions. I've never encountered anything during my weekly regular full scans, but lately I get a message during scan saying that preliminary scan results show that malicious or potentially unwanted software may exist on the computer. It follows by saying that detected items can be reviewed after scan has finished, but once it's over I only get the usual message that the computer is protected and that there are no found items, quarantined or otherwise.
I get this warning during every scan (only full scans though, not while scanning each disk individually), but no items are ever found. Malwarebytes found a few bloat ware-ish registry entries that were quarantined, nothing malicious, but defender still flags during scans yet ends up finding nothing.
Need I do anything more about this?
Thanks for your time.