On Windows, PowerShell comes with cmdlets to automate the built-in antivirus engine “Defender”.
If you’d like to update the signatures automatically, try this:
PS C:\> Update-MpSignature
If you run this command from a script that you scheduled to run at given times, you are now in full control. No Administrator privileges needed.
Likewise, PowerShell can start a quick scan any time with just one command:
PS C:\> Start-MpScan -ScanType QuickScan
The scan progress shows as PowerShell progress bars within the console, so there are no annoying dialog boxes opening.
And if you’d like to know the latest threats you were exposed to, let Defender output its threat analysis:
PS C:\> Get-MpThreat CategoryID : 27 DidThreatExecute : False IsActive : True Resources : RollupStatus : 1 SchemaVersion : 1.0.0.0 SeverityID : 1 ThreatID : 311978 ThreatName : PUADlManager:Win32/DownloadSponsor TypeID : 0 PSComputerName :
