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MCT

Jan 13, 2023

Solved

Antivirus deletes all shortcuts from the desktop

After this morning's update of security intelligence to version 1.381.2140.0, defender is deleting on all clients all links to applications; does anyone have the same problem?

yongrheemsft
Jan 14, 2023
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-endpoint/recovering-from-attack-surface-reduction-rule-shortcut-deletions/ba-p/3716011

Peter Kopper

Copper Contributor

Jan 13, 2023

Dreamaker We haven´t had a block roule, but all shortcuts were deleted. We changed to audit, but without a change on the tested mashines.

2code-monte

Copper Contributor

Jan 13, 2023

It looks like having a rule set to "Warn" also causes the issue. You need to set to audit or disabled.