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Windows Defender history is broken after compression #67

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@Marocco2

After a restart, Windows Defender history will appear blank and non functional. I did recover this in the past but I don't remember the exact steps and what files are involved.

I'll update the issue if I will find a solution

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  1. Marocco2 commented on Dec 6, 2021

    @Marocco2
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    Seems like corruption takes place when you're going to compress ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender

    Restore Defender logging functionality is a mess. I would suggest add this path to blacklist

  2. Marocco2 commented on Dec 10, 2021

    @Marocco2
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    Found the culprit: compressing C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\mpenginedb.db would lead into corruption of history log

  3. Freaky commented on Dec 24, 2022

    @Freaky
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    Given I'm gaining exclusive locks on these files I'm surprised embedded db libraries continue to have issues. Perhaps I should also be setting share_mode.

    Either way I'm going to add .db, .db-shm, and .db-wal to the default excluded file types.

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