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<blockquote data-quote="SeriousHoax" data-source="post: 914180" data-attributes="member: 78686"><p>Just adding one thing here about signatures. Microsoft actually release signatures multiple times a day but by default it checks for update once a day on your system or after every restart. Windows 10 has fast startup enabled so turning a PC on isn't really counted as a restart. If you disable fast startup/restart the system then it will check for updates every time the PC turns on. Don't disable fast startup just for this btw. I'm just telling this for the sake of explaining WD's updating pattern.</p><p>You can manually change this behavior like RoboMan suggested through regedit/group policy/powershell. But it's not really necessary if the PC is always connected to internet. Micrsoft's offline signatures are usually delayed by few days but the online one is always connected and up to date. Most new threats are detected by their machine learning first with weird looking name and later they create proper signatures with proper famlily name, variant, etc classification and like I said the later stage is delayed by few days. So it's not necessary to check for updates every few hours. If you need to scan a flash drive then you may check for update manually before scanning if you wish. </p><p>You can check how many times a day a definition update is released and what signatures they add and update here. The lowest I've seen so far is twice a day to maximum ten times a day. </p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/definitions/antimalware-definition-release-notes[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SeriousHoax, post: 914180, member: 78686"] Just adding one thing here about signatures. Microsoft actually release signatures multiple times a day but by default it checks for update once a day on your system or after every restart. Windows 10 has fast startup enabled so turning a PC on isn't really counted as a restart. If you disable fast startup/restart the system then it will check for updates every time the PC turns on. Don't disable fast startup just for this btw. I'm just telling this for the sake of explaining WD's updating pattern. You can manually change this behavior like RoboMan suggested through regedit/group policy/powershell. But it's not really necessary if the PC is always connected to internet. Micrsoft's offline signatures are usually delayed by few days but the online one is always connected and up to date. Most new threats are detected by their machine learning first with weird looking name and later they create proper signatures with proper famlily name, variant, etc classification and like I said the later stage is delayed by few days. So it's not necessary to check for updates every few hours. If you need to scan a flash drive then you may check for update manually before scanning if you wish. You can check how many times a day a definition update is released and what signatures they add and update here. The lowest I've seen so far is twice a day to maximum ten times a day. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/definitions/antimalware-definition-release-notes[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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