![]() ![]() The cause of Microsoft Defender going rogue appears to be an ASR rule that was altered by a recent Defender update. The reason for this was found out to be an ASR (Attack Surface Reduction) rule gone wrong, which are rules that are in place to protect your devices from attacks that use macros, scripts, and common injection techniques. Last Friday with the most recent update, Windows Defender started to remove shortcuts from Windows Taskbar and Start Menu, and occasionally, the linked program files were even removed from the disk. ![]() Windows Defender is a Microsoft anti- malware tool that comes preinstalled in Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows 11. The issue has been resolved but users could not get their deleted shortcuts back without trying other methods, one of them being running a script recommended by Microsoft to get some of the shortcuts back.Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) rules are there to protect your devices from attacks that use macros, scripts, and common injection techniques.Microsoft Defender’s security intelligence update build 1.381.2140.0 has caused problems with its “block Win32 API calls from Office macro” Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) rule. ![]()
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