Comment by xori Comment by xori 3 days ago 1 reply Copy Link View on Hacker News The real question is can Windows defender scan these drives?
Copy Link jasomill 3 days ago Collapse Comment - I don't know what it scans in the background by default, but it can custom scan mounted volumes with no visible mount points assigned at all, e.g., my EFI partition containing a copy of the EICAR test file[1]: PS C:\Users\jtm> & 'C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe' -Scan -ScanType 3 -File '\\?\Volume{91ada2dc-bb55-4d7d-aee5-df40f3cfa155}\' Scan starting... Scan finished. Scanning \\?\Volume{91ada2dc-bb55-4d7d-aee5-df40f3cfa155}\ found 1 threats. Cleaning started... Cleaning finished. [1] https://www.eicar.org/download-anti-malware-testfile/ Reply View | 0 replies
I don't know what it scans in the background by default, but it can custom scan mounted volumes with no visible mount points assigned at all, e.g., my EFI partition containing a copy of the EICAR test file[1]:
[1] https://www.eicar.org/download-anti-malware-testfile/