Jan 16, 2025 · Run Microsoft Defender Antivirus scans and configure next-generation protection with a dedicated command-line utility.

Jan 10, 2024 · If you are locked out of its graphics user interface or don’t want to launch it, you can directly use Windows Defender from Command Prompt. This post shows you how to use Windows Defender from Command Prompt to execute different operations.

Mar 25, 2021 · Rather than using the graphical Windows Security app, you can run Windows 10's built-in antivirus from Command Prompt, PowerShell, or Windows Terminal. You can run a quick scan to look for viruses, malware, and other threats in some common places, such as the Windows Registry and startup folders.

Aug 1, 2023 · You can use Windows Defender in Command Prompt to do basic things, like performing scans and removing or updating the virus definitions.

Run and configure on-demand scans using PowerShell, Windows Management Instrumentation, or individually on endpoints with the Windows Security app

May 17, 2022 · You can use Command Prompt to control various aspects of Microsoft Defender Antivirus, and in this guide, we'll show you how on Windows 10.

Dec 24, 2024 · However, it is possible to run Windows Defender Scan via Command Line using Command Prompt. In this article we will check out How to use Command Prompt and Windows PowerShell and run various Windows Defender Scans on Windows 11.

Windows Defender has one command to update the virus signatures and four commands to perform various scan types, quick scan, full scan, custom scan, and boot sector scan.

Jan 2, 2024 · We show you how to perform various tasks with the Windows Defender command line tool, including how to use the scan command, update, rollback, and un-quarantine.

Dec 8, 2022 · In this guide, we'll show you the steps to get started controlling the Microsoft Defender Antivirus with Command Prompt on Windows 11.