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1. Commands to run Windows Defender Windows 10
2. How to use the MpCmdRun.exe command in Windows 10

Windows 10 thinks about the security of each one of its users when integrating by default an antivirus that little by little has been evolving in its characteristics, functionalities and even appearance.

Thus, we have seen the evolution of Windows Defender to the Windows Defender Security Center with protection for many aspects such as the cloud, executable files, folders , malware scans and more. This for us as users of Windows 10 is a relief since the Windows Defender tasks are executed in real time and the updates are automatic.

Windows Defender gives us a comprehensive antivirus protection associated with the security of Windows 10 which is based on pillars such as:

Analysis of security in the cloud

With this analysis, taking its foundation in big data, Windows Defender will be able to detect any threat, however small it may be, to avoid being attacked through cloud services.

Endpoint behavior sensors

These are sensors already integrated in Windows 10, which have the task of collecting and processing signals based on the behavior of the operating system. After this analysis, the results are sent to the private and isolated cloud instances of Windows Defender for processing.

Threat Intelligence

Developed by Microsoft security teams, these are processes that can identify tools, techniques and any procedure that an attacker implements in order to be one step ahead in their plans.

Windows Defender handles various zones or parameters within Windows 10 such as:

Reduction of the attack surface

When creating shields in the first line of defense, that is, making the configurations in an appropriate way.

Managing threats and vulnerability

With which the vulnerabilities and wrong configurations are analyzed with the respective corrections.

Automated research

Which offers defenses against sudden attacks.

Next generation protection

Which analyzes and detects all kinds of vulnerabilities and threats.

Integration of a new threat search service

Which is managed by Windows Defender ATP.

When we access the console of the Windows Defender Security Center we will see the following:

There we can manage and execute tasks like

  • Protection of associated accounts in Windows 10.
  • Access and configure family options.
  • Configure the Firewall.
  • Manage security in the network.
  • Run scans looking for viruses or malware.
  • See the performance of the team and more.

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1. Commands to run Windows Defender Windows 10


Although the Windows Defender graphical interface is ideal for many, TechnoWikis has a surprise (especially if you like the system console) as we will explain how to carry out some Windows Defender tasks from the command prompt.

Step 1


To achieve our goal we must access the system symbol as administrators, for this we enter "cmd" in the search box of Windows 10 and in the option displayed we click on the line "Run as administrator". We accept the UAC message and we will access the console as administrators.

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Step 2


Windows Defender offers three types of scanning that are:

Quick scan

It is a light scan in which elements such as registry keys and home folders are analyzed, obviously its execution time is brief, its syntax in the command prompt is with the parameter -ScanType 1

Full scan

This is a more advanced level since it analyzes each object of the system in search of threats, its parameter in the command prompt is -ScanType 2.

Custom scanning

This applies when we want Windows Defender to analyze only some elements (like files or folders) of the system, its parameter to use is -ScanType 3.

Now, Windows Defender has its executable in the following path:

 C:\Program Files\Windows Defender 

Its executable is MpCmdRun.exe, now, this path must join the parameter for the execution of the scan, if we want to run a quick scan we will execute the following:

 "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" -Scan -ScanType 1 

In the same way, if we want a complete analysis we will execute:

 "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" -Scan -ScanType 2 

First we will see that the scanning process starts: image

Step 4


When the process concludes we will see the following: image

It is normal that we want to perform a scan on a particular file or directory, this is achieved using the custom scan, for this we will execute the following syntax:

 "% ProgramFiles% \ Windows Defender \ MpCmdRun.exe" -Scan -ScanType 3 -File "File" 

Step 5


For example, in this case we will analyze the following:

 "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" -Scan -ScanType 3 -File D:\ TechnoWikis1\TechnoWikis 

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Step 6


Another of the great advantages of using Windows Defender through the command line is the possibility of activating an analysis for the boot sector of the system in order to detect any vulnerability, if something is detected there would be a really critical problem. that we are talking about the fundamental sector of the hard disk, to activate the scan in the boot sector of the hard disk we will execute the following command at the command prompt.

 "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" -Scan -ScanType -BootSectorScan 

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Step 7


The moment Windows Defender detects a threat, it will move it to quarantine so that it does not infect the operating system. But it is possible that at some point a file is detected as a threat when it is not in fact, so it will be necessary to recover that element so that it is not affected, for this we must list all the quarantined files with the following command:

 "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" -Restore -ListAll 

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Step 8


In this case we do not have any quarantined files, if there is a quarantined file we must execute the following syntax:

 "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" -Restore -Name "Name" 

As we mentioned earlier, Windows Defender is updated automatically, we can verify if it is updated by running the following:

 "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" -SignatureUpdate 

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2. How to use the MpCmdRun.exe command in Windows 10


As mentioned at the beginning of this tutorial, Windows Defender uses the MpCmdRun.exe command in order to carry out various tasks on it, the general syntax is as follows:

 MpCmdRun.exe [command] [-options] 

To make use of this option we must access the path C: \ Program Files \ Windows Defender from the command prompt like this:

 cd C:\Program Files\Windows Defender 

There are a series of parameters to use with this command, these are:

This option displays the help of the utility

 ? o -h 

This option performs a scan for malware

 Scan [-ScanType #] [-File] [-DisableRemediation] [-BootSectorScan]] [-Timeout] [-Cancel] 

This option executes a routing diagnostic

 Trace [-Grouping #] [-Level #] 

This option collects support information.

 GetFiles 

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This option redirects the results to the DiagTrack folder temporarily

 GetFilesDiagTrack 

With this option the function d is restored

 RemoveDefinitions [-All] 

With these commands that we have shown you will be able to run Windows Server in Windows 10 in a fast and simple way.


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How to use Windows Defender from command prompt, or CMD
How to launch an analysis of the database from Windows Defender

By default, Windows Defender has a very simple interface from which we can control and configure the antivirus, in addition to other functions such as the Windows optimizer, the firewall or the control of applications and accounts.

Windows Defender Windows 10 April 2018 Update

Although using this antivirus from this window is the easiest and fastest we have, some users may have found that this window does not work, or they simply want to create a script that, with a simple double click, this tool analyzes our system for any threat This is possible because it has commands for CMD , and then we will explain how it works.

How to use Windows Defender from command prompt, or CMD

The first thing to know is that the tool that allows us to use this antivirus from the command line is MpCmdRun.exe, a tool that is found by default in the Windows Defender directory and that we can run from a CMD window to see the large amount of different parameters that it offers us.

  • «C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe»

All the commands that we execute must be made from this tool by adding the appropriate parameters. For example, if we want to update the virus database, we can easily do it by executing the following command:

  • «C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe» -SignatureUpdate

Update Windows Defender CMD database

This command is recommended whenever we are going to do a scan to make sure we have the latest version of the virus database. Once the database is updated, we can start the analysis.

How to launch an analysis of the database from Windows Defender

From CMD we can launch 3 different types of analysis:

  • ScanType 1 - Quick Scan
  • ScanType 2 - Complete analysis
  • ScanType 3 - Custom Analysis

Analyzes 1 and 2, as they already have their own configurations, have no mystery, and we can execute them by executing the following command:

  • «C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe» -Scan -ScanType 1
  • «C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe» -Scan -ScanType 2

Scan PC Windows Defender CMD

If you want to analyze a specific directory of our computer, then we must resort to ScanType 3, entering, as a parameter, the directory to analyze. For example:

  • «C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe» -Scan -ScanType 3 -File D: \ Games \

In the event that a threat is detected during the scan, it will be automatically deleted, and Windows Defender itself will show us a notification on our desktop informing us of the event. Likewise, if no threat is detected during the PC analysis, then we will see a warning that will inform us that everything has been correct.


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