{"id":243447,"date":"2026-09-01T05:13:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/microsoft-asks-users-to-ignore-antivirus-is-turned-off-errors"},"modified":"2026-09-01T05:13:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:13:44","slug":"microsoft-asks-users-to-ignore-antivirus-is-turned-off-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/microsoft-asks-users-to-ignore-antivirus-is-turned-off-errors","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft asks users to ignore \u2018Antivirus is turned off\u2019 errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-asks-users-to-ignore-antivirus-is-turned-off-errors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft asked customers this week to ignore alerts that Defender Antivirus has been turned off after installing the latest Defender updates.<\/p>\n<p>Although this issue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/windowsinsiders\/comments\/1ul8qpn\/virus_protection_is_turned_off_tap_or_click_to\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">has been affecting users<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/antivirus\/comments\/1u0uv9p\/turn_on_virus_protection_notification_whenever_i\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Release Preview Channel<\/a> of the Windows Insider program since June, it appears Microsoft didn\u2019t notice it until now.<\/p>\n<p>The erroneous alerts appear on affected systems in the Windows Security app and prompt users to \u201cTap or click to turn on Microsoft Defender Antivirus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft asked customers this week to ignore alerts that Defender Antivirus has been turned off after installing the latest Defender updates. Although this issue has been affecting users in the Release Preview Channel of the Windows Insider program since June, it appears Microsoft didn\u2019t notice it until now. The erroneous alerts appear on affected systems [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}