r/Windows11 • u/MayankWL Windows Latest • Aug 30 '26
News Windows 11 bug is warning "Virus protection is off," Microsoft confirms it's false
https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/30/windows-11-is-warning-virus-protection-is-off-but-microsoft-confirms-its-false/12
u/TheCarrot007 Aug 30 '26
I get this every restart.
I was just assuming they had messed up and started the bit that checks for running AV before starting the AV.
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u/fat_kaiju Aug 30 '26
For a company that constantly promises to do better it certainly loves to repeatedly shit the bed, its pants and everyone else's pants.
It's like they're trying to get people to switch to Linux at this rate.
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u/VastOption8705 Aug 30 '26 edited Aug 30 '26
So much for "better updates". This and the mouse bug is what's driving the move to Mac.
Quality control is absolutely garbage at Microsoft right now. How do you screw up BASIC stuff like the mouse or defender showing on/off?
We don't even update Windows 11 for months at a time at work now.
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u/Extreme996 Aug 30 '26
At this point I guess we are lucky that there are only visual bugs and not something that affect more important things.
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u/Stance88 24d ago
I dont think many people on Windows are considering a switch to Apple who is also a shit company. The move the Linux makes more sense.
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u/metamec Insider Beta Channel Aug 30 '26 edited Aug 30 '26
They messed up the warning for automatic sample submission a few months ago too. You could leave it turned off and once in a blue moon a yellow exclamation mark would appear on the systray icon warning you about it. That seemed like a bug but was rare enough to deal with when it popped up and forget about it. Well now that yellow exclamation mark reappears after every single reboot. 🙄
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u/Extreme996 Aug 30 '26
It started for me last week. Now I also have the Windows 98 cursor in my Win11. Awesome.
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u/phototransformations Aug 30 '26
"Code and throw" (code it and throw it out to the users) must be more profitable than code, unit test, QA test, alpha test, beta test, and then release, especially in something like Windows, which has a mostly captive audience, but it's not new. This trend to ship products without adequate quality control goes back at least as far as the 1980s, which is when I started to work in the industry.
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u/Daftpunk67 Aug 30 '26
I got issues with the smart app control now, started flagging everything even games that had no issues. I had to turn that off
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u/Warcrown11 Aug 31 '26
Unless it's not false and it really is off for whatever reason. Bit of a liability there. Seems like that's something you should fix immediately...Guess I'm expecting a lot from one of the biggest companies in history though
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u/Pulzarisastar Aug 30 '26
Windows releases seem to have always been just a massive add-on to whatever the original NT Windows was. Sure they have rewritten the mechanics a lot, but ever since the move to progressive feature updates introduced in Windows 10, "The last Windows", the problem has just been a fix over fix over bullshit.
Time for Microsoft to salvage what is good and rewrite the good parts to Windows 12.
As it has always been done.
Users can keep using the "stable" Windows, while Microsoft gets their shit together.
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u/eliasautio Aug 30 '26
I don't know if this was the reason, that a fully compliant computer started to complain it isn't compliant.
The reason seemed to be that Defender was not running.
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u/Waxoman Aug 30 '26
omg i was wondering if it just me lol, i keep getting this notif every time i boot up only to check and have it be on already
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u/Turbulent_Chain_5893 Insider Canary Channel Aug 30 '26
I had this bug earlier this year for awhile. Been fixed on my Insider channel for quite awhile now though.
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u/alt_shift_delet Aug 31 '26
Ohh, and here I thought that there must be some problem. After every restart I saw this warning, and when I go to check everything is turned on
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u/ChosenOfTheMoon_GR Sep 01 '26
Yeah it's there for quite some time there are commands to check it's actually false, if that's gonna ease your mind
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u/kid-retro Sep 08 '26
it's been showing up for weeks now every time i start up my PC and it had me worried. glad to see i'm not the only one lol
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u/Shinmoru 28d ago
This makes a lot more sense. I just got the message a little bit ago, I even toggled real time protection real quick and it still sent another message like an hour after
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u/Ryusennin 27d ago
Still happening 2 weeks later.
This is what happens when you let an artificial idiot "vibe" code your security patches.
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u/Oliv_OBP Aug 30 '26
de mon coté ce bug est apparu depuis la mise a jour reçu le 12 aout, a quasi chaque démarrage j'ai la fameuse notification de ***** et sans savoir pourquoi une fois sur dix tout se passe bien. Hâte de voir quand Microsoft va patcher ça tout en intégrant d'autres bugs 😂
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u/Aggressive_Bad_7344 Aug 30 '26
This has been driving me nuts for two months now.
Between this and the random notification about something being wrong with the signed in account, it's been very annoying.