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RyanSteele-CoV
Aug 20, 2025Iron Contributor
What does "deprecated" mean in the Defender Antivirus for Linux settings?
When you create a Microsoft Defender Antivirus policy for Linux in the Endpoint Security Policies blade of the Defender admin center, there are two settings in the Antivirus Engine section that have ...
- Aug 21, 2025
Hello,
those settings are marked as deprecated because they’ve been replaced by a newer option: Enforcement level. By default, this is set to Passive, but it also supports Real time and On demand.
You’ll find this new setting in the same policy, just a little further down. It’s recommended to switch to this newer method. 🙂
RyanSteele-CoV
Aug 22, 2025Iron Contributor
Thank you JiriLacina , this was very helpful.
If anyone from the product team happens to stumble upon this: please update the documentation. At the very least, put something more helpful in the info popovers next to each of the deprecated settings.