Policy

Check for the latest virus and spyware security intelligence before running a scheduled scan

Microsoft Windows

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Check for the latest virus and spyware security intelligence before running a scheduled scan
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Windows Components > Microsoft Defender Antivirus > Scan
Supported on
At least Windows Vista

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista

This policy setting allows you to manage whether a check for new virus and spyware security intelligence will occur before running a scan. This setting applies to scheduled scans, but it has no effect on scans initiated manually from the user interface or to the ones started from the command line using "mpcmdrun -Scan". If you enable this setting, a check for new security intelligence will occur before running a scan. If you disable this setting or do not configure this setting, the scan will start using the existing security intelligence.

Internal name
CheckForSignaturesBeforeRunningScan
Policy ID
bd1e7c6a8302
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scan
Value name
CheckForSignaturesBeforeRunningScan
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scan
Value name
CheckForSignaturesBeforeRunningScan
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.