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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...
Protection History exists for security auditing purposes, so it doesn't clear immediately after a threat is resolved. Microsoft's official documentation states clearly: "Protection history only keeps events for two weeks, after which they disappear from this page."