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Malware best practices - Windows Tutorial
From the course: IT Help Desk for Beginners
Malware best practices
- [Instructor] Let's look at some best practices for malware scanning on a Windows 11 computer. And this also works for Windows 10, and previous versions as well, although the interface does look a little bit different if you're using a third party application even though the interface will look different there as well, the same basic types of controls are still going to be there. So in the search box, I'm going to type in Windows Defender, and I'll choose Virus and Threat Protection. And you can also just type in Virus and Threat Protection, either one will work fine. Now, if we take a look under Current threats there is a Quick Scan option. So if the user thinks it's possible they may have a virus, you can direct them to this Quick Scan. The Quick Scan doesn't take very long, and it scans all the most likely places where there's going to be any type of virus. And after about a minute or so, it should let us know if there's…
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