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Will MS Defender protection history clear logs automatically or do I need to manually remove them?
I ran into a false positive with 7-Zip recently—Defender flagged it as a Trojan on September 4, but later scans confirmed it was clean and the install went through without issues. The problem is, th...
According to Microsoft's official documentation, Protection History entries are automatically removed after 15 days by default . Other Microsoft support pages state events are retained for two weeks and then disappear from the list.