Scan Update Manage Microsoft Defender Antivirus through Windows PowerShell

Microsoft Defender Antivirus is a free anti antivirus application with GUI that comes preinstalled on Windows 10. It comes with Behavior-based, heuristic, and real-time protection against viruses, malware, and spyware. But you can also control and manage it via the Windows PowerShell. Windows PowerShell is a task automation command-line shell tool and scripting language. In this article we will see how to manage Microsoft Defender Antivirus via Windows PowerShell in Windows 10.

Windows defender Powershell

First you need to open the PowerShell via windows search and check if Microsoft Defender Antivirus is active. Type powershell in the Windows Start menu search bar and click on Run as administrator.

Poweshell

It will open the PowerShell in admin mode. Then run below command in PowerShell and hit the enter key

Get-MpComputerStatus

Windows defender status

And check AntivirusEnabled is True. If false you need to enable Microsoft Defender Antivirus first. Open the windows security app by typing windows security in the Start menu search bar and open windows security. Then open Virus & threat protection and click on the Manage settings option. Enable Cloud-delivered protection and Real-time protection. that’s it.

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Update Microsoft Defender Using PowerShell

Now run below command in PowerShell to update Microsoft Defender Antivirus.

Update-MpSignature

Quick Microsoft Defender Antivirus Scan Using PowerShell

You can run a quick antivirus scan using this command.

Start-MpScan -ScanType QuickScan

 

Windows defender scan

You can also Schedule this quick scan via

Set-MpPreference -ScanScheduleQuickScanTime 14:00:00

Replace “14:00:00” with your time.

Full Microsoft Defender Antivirus Scan Using PowerShell

Start-MpScan -ScanType FullScan

Run the scan in the background

Start-MpScan -ScanType FullScan -AsJob

You can also Schedule this full scan via below command. replace time with yours.

Set-MpPreference -RemediationScheduleTime 14:00:00

Run Microsoft Defender Antivirus Offline Scan

Start-MpWDOScan

Using this above methods you can manage Microsoft Defender Antivirus using Windows PowerShell. That’s it

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