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Detailed reason of M365 Defender Quarantine blocked an incoming mail

I have many returning false positive blocked mails from an organization partner, that always blocked their reply on our emails. Our quarantined report says Blocked by organization policy : Antimalware ...
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Office 365: daily quarantine reports

I am looking to activate a daily quarantine report for all users under Office365 but can't seem to find the option in the new layout. It is no longer available under the "classic exchange admin ...
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How to disable quarantine completely in macOS?

In macOS Big Sur (v11.2.3), how can I completely disable the following warning (see screenshot), for all applications I ever download? Yes, I know of the potential security risks, and I'm willing to ...
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Windows Security - Restoring a quarantined file which is not found but exists in the quarantine folder [duplicate]

Windows Security has quarantined a text file containing important information. That happened less that 30 days ago, but I cannot see any files in the Windows Security Protection History ("no ...
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Cannot execute downloaded file from script

I downloaded a jdk7 tarball to test parity with some old software during an upgrade. When I unpacked it I of course got a bunch of quarantined files. After not finding a way to remove the quarantine ...
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Windows Defender won't delete or restore quarantined threat

Windows Defender has quarantined two threats on my PC recently: one is an infected executable on a network share (which was put there deliberately and which someone needs), the other is a simple "...
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How to stop Windows Defender deleting false positives during file copy?

I have a hard drive with old versions of downloaded programs, some coding I did myself and a few other things that I would like to back-up. The last time I did this, I ended up with Windows Defender ...
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How does Mac know an executable is from the outside world?

This is just a curious question occurred to me yesterday while testing a program on other Macs. When I build the program in xcode/terminal and run it, there is no warning dialog. But when I copy the ...
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virus still dangerous when in windows defender quarantine

So I've checked my computer and I've found an old trojan file in the quarantine-tab of windows defender. It is there since two months. So my question is: If the file is in the quarantine, is it still ...
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Security Essentials: restore a quarantined file to a different location?

I have a file that Security Essentials quarantined "on sight" that I want to restore to perform some further analysis on. However, the file was stored on my NAS server. This means I had accessed the ...
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Causes of: com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: Exited with code: 1

A subset of our users are reporting that our application refuses to run (bounces once in the dock, and then closes). If we drill into the application bundle (/Application.app/Contents/MacOS) and ...
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In Security Essentials, how do I enable scanning of files previously restored from quarantine?

I had infected .htm files on a web server. I wanted to see the text of one of the files, so I could see the malicious code myself. However, whenever I would download one of the .htm files to my ...
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How to stop the "Are you sure dialogue" in Mac OS X?

In Mac OS X 10.5.8 whenever I download an app etc, then open it I get the "This app was downloaded from the internet are you sure you want to open it" dialogue. Never did it with Tiger... Does anyone ...
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How do I find information about a particular trojan? "W32/Smalltroj.XVGT", as reported by Norman

I tried checking the Norman antivirus page, Virus-descriptions, but sadly it seems Norman has intentionally obfuscated their search results (I tried clicking on W, and it seems they just list viruses ...
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DMG mounting warning message says "it may make computer less secure or cause other problems"

When I try to open a DMG file I get this: I'll just transcript the image: There may be a problem with this disk image. Are you sure you want to open it? Opening this disk image may make your ...
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