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Updated description of security states defined by Security Center.
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dougeby authored Nov 12, 2024
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- Yellow indicates that your computer's status is "potentially unprotected."
- Red indicates that your computer's status is "at risk."
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Can you describe a little bit what protected, potentially protected or at risk means?
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Depending whether Defender or another antivirus product is being used as primary provider, the general states above represented by a color show the overall asessment of the security state of the device.
In case of security level being satisfactory, a green label will be provided.
The "potentially unprotected" state is mostly due to settings - not directly impacting detection - not being set to the recommended security level. For example, in Defender case, a quick scan didn't run in a while, or cloud protection is turned off.
In the case of another antivirus, those states are reported via Security Center and could be in basically the following categories - a scan is recommended, settings change is recommended or an update is recomended.
The "at risk" status represents serious security issues, such as a malware detection, software out of date or antivirus not running at all. In the case of another Antivirus that could mean license has expired.
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How to set up Windows Defender or Endpoint Protection alerts?
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