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by TillE 1045 days ago
I think maybe this was changed quite recently, but for a long time Windows 10/11 would send you periodic notifications that Defender had done a scan and found no threats. Pointless and briefly alarming; I do not expect to get AV notifications unless there's a problem.

I'm glad there's a GUI though, which lets you do a deep scan on boot and other stuff.

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I’m on 11 Insider Preview on my work machine and about once a week I get a notification that says something to the effect of Defender not finding anything after scanning five times.
I tend to agree, in Windows 10 I've found I get less Defender notifications than I ever did.

I can't remember the last time I saw the Defender UI