{"id":4139,"date":"2020-04-17T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2518776"},"modified":"2020-04-17T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T14:30:00","slug":"windows-defender-chokes-on-two-dot-file-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/17\/windows-defender-chokes-on-two-dot-file-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Defender chokes on two-dot file names"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Microsoft releases update.<\/h2>\n
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A mysterious issue that caused the anti-virus scanner in the Windows Defender security application to crash has been traced to file names with two dots in them.<\/p>\n

Windows Defender is the built in anti-malware software in Windows 10 that aims to protect against a range of threats.<\/p>\n

Users complained<\/a> that Windows Defender – which was updated this week – would stop, displaying an error message that read: “The threat service has stopped. Restart it now.” <\/p>\n

However, it was not possible to restart Windows Defender with users being shown another message saying, “Unexpected error. Sorry, we ran into a problem. Please try again.”<\/p>\n

The root cause of issue was less than obvious, with the error messages and log entries providing few if any clues.<\/p>\n

It was eventually discovered<\/a> that Defender would crash when it scanned file names with two dots in them, such as document..txt, which some applications would create.<\/p>\n

While not commenting on the two-dot bug, Microsoft has rolled out a fixed version of Defender, 1.313.1687.0, via Windows Update.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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See Campaign: <\/strong>https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/forum\/all\/windows-security\/ab8265c2-4212-4575-bfa5-ea24d372c9e3<\/a>
Contact Information:<\/b>
Juha<\/p>\n

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Contact Information:<\/h3>\n

Juha<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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