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

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 as well as the command line "mpcmdrun -SigUpdate", but it has no effect on scans initiated manually from the user interface.

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.

Supported on: At least Windows Vista

Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry PathSoftware\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scan
Value NameCheckForSignaturesBeforeRunningScan
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled Value1
Disabled Value0

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