NirSoft's latest tool, WinDefThreatsView, helps you manage your Windows Defender threats en masse. Let's take a closer look.
The WinDefThreatsView is a free, new software tool for its Windows 8.1 and 10 operating systems Microsoft, from the NirSoft site, which helps users manage threats detected by the built-in protection of the Windows Defender Antivirus software present in their operating system.
The Windows Defender Antivirus is the default antivirus solution in Windows 10. Users can safely install third-party security software. But for those who rely on Windows Defender to be safe, then WinDefThreatsView will get their hands dirty.
The reason is that Windows Defender Antivirus is not specifically designed to give you many options for configuring and managing it. The program displays an alert when a threat is detected, but important control panels, such as threat history or various protections, are not easily found on the system and often require a lot of clicks and knowledge to open these menus.
WinDefThreatsView provides an alternative, at least when it comes to managing detected threats. WinDefThreatsView is a free program, available as 32-bit and 64-bit versions for Microsoft Windows 10 and 8.1.
No installation required. Just download the zip archive, unzip it, even to a usb flash, and run it from any location. The application records all detectable threats that Windows Defender has found. For new threats, it is necessary to press the “Refresh” button and provided that the antivirus is already running, so that it can rescan and see its results.
The program loads the local computer data by default, but you can also use it to display the data of remote computer systems.
To do this, select Options> Advanced Options. You need to go to “Load threats data from remote computer” and specify the computer name and username / password, if required.
Note that you can run the tool on a Windows 7 machine to connect to a supported operating system (Windows 8.1 or 10) using the Remote PC option.
All threats are listed with filename, threat name, severity, domain name and process name, initial detection and recovery time and data, threat ID and status, action, paths and more.
All or a selection of data can be saved to various file types including txt, csv, xml and json. Right-clicking on an option displays a menu with various commands. From there select “Set Default energy for selected threats” to select an action, e.g. quarantine, allow, block or catslowstay You can use it to manage all threats or a subset of threats at once, which greatly improves manageability.
You can also run the program from the command line orders but only to export threats to a new file you specify.
Briefly
WinDefThreatsView is a handy portable program for Microsoft Windows users and administrators and for systems running Windows Defender Antivirus. In addition to the useful option of managing multiple threats at once, it is also able to export threat data to various file formats.