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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

yongrheemsft

Microsoft

Jan 13, 2023

A group of MVPs has published a PS script to restore the .lnks on GitHub https://github.com/InsideTechnologiesSrl/DefenderBug/blob/main/W11-RestoreLinks.ps1

JILALU360

Copper Contributor

Mar 03, 2023

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