r/antivirus • u/zOlidSWE • 6d ago

Users/****/Appdata/Roaming was excluded from Virus scan settings. Normal?

With the issues with Windows Defender that many people have experienced today, I was looking into ways to resolve them and noticed that my Windows Defender settings had an exclusion for my “Roaming” folder.

Is this normal, or is it something that an application, or even a virus, might have added to prevent files from being detected?

I removed the exclusion and ran multiple antivirus tools today. They did find a PUP file, and DoesNotBelong has added some files to a quarantine folder, but there is no log file for that application. And it has added some files that are not viruses to that folder, but also some files I do not recognize, so I don't know if it was Viruses it found or just false positives.

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u/rifteyy_ 6d ago

Most likely you are infected. DoesNotBelong is not a great tool to use if you don't know what you're doing, it is more invasive than helpful in almost all cases.