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Teams.exe - Was blocked from making system calls to Win32k.sys.
What is the below event log message a result of? Should we be making any type of exclusion? Process '\Device\HarddiskVolume4\Users\*****\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams\current\Teams.exe' (PID 2129...
I have the same problem with the search program 'https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/pages/index-recoll.html'.
One reason that I replaced Microsoft Defender with something third-party was precisely to avoid this sort of nonsense whereby Defender mistakenly thinks that it knows best. What we see here - with Defender blocking harmless programs that one wants to run - is that one cannot entirely replace Defender, and that consequently one has problems using one's computer. That situation is pretty desperate (and gives me further reason to move entirely to Linux).
- Why don't you just make an exclusion for it?
jbmartin6: where? As I said, Defender is (so far as possible) disabled. (For it I substituted Eset's 'NOD32 Anti-Virus.)
- ASR rules are technically not part of Defender, it is an OS feature that can be enabled/disabled independently. If you are encountering issues with the feature, take a look and see if it is still configured.
