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WNDF-AV-000064 - Microsoft Defender AV must enable script scanning.
Information
Always-on protection consists of real-time protection, behavior monitoring, and heuristics to identify malware based on known suspicious and malicious activities. These activities include events, such as processes making unusual changes to existing files, modifying or creating automatic startup registry keys and startup locations (also known as autostart extensibility points, or ASEPs), and other changes to the file system or file structure.Solution
Set the policy value for Computer Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Windows Components >> Microsoft Defender Antivirus >> Real-time Protection >> Turn on script scanning to 'Enabled'.See Also
https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_Defender_Antivirus_V2R9_STIG.zip
Item Details
Audit Name: DISA Microsoft Defender Antivirus STIG v2r9
Category: SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY
References: 800-53|SI-3c.1., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-002624, Rule-ID|SV-278668r1192823_rule, STIG-ID|WNDF-AV-000064, Vuln-ID|V-278668
Plugin: Windows
Control ID: 22f27fbeea35eabde1f0adb3bbb34873594d048b6e9c6f9508d9a9473a875f66