{"id":50263,"date":"2023-04-05T17:05:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T16:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/50263\/where-does-the-microsoft-safety-scanner-store-its-log-files\/"},"modified":"2023-04-05T17:05:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T16:05:50","slug":"where-does-the-microsoft-safety-scanner-store-its-log-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/50263\/where-does-the-microsoft-safety-scanner-store-its-log-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Where does the Microsoft Safety Scanner store its log files?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Safety Scanner finds infected file and says at the end that everything is OK.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When testing the <a href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/50200\/microsoft-safety-scanner-stand-alone-scan-tool-for-windows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Safety Scanner<\/a>, I got feedback that infected files were reported for some users. At least during the search run. In the end, however, everything was fine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/scan_log_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1040\" height=\"470\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/scan_log_1.png 1040w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/scan_log_1-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/scan_log_1-1024x463.png 1024w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/scan_log_1-768x347.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1040px) 100vw, 1040px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, this causes uncertainty. As a rule, this is due to false alarms and possibly signatures that resemble a virus in parts. In the end, however, you want to be sure. To do this, you can take a look at the log file of the Microsoft Safety Scanner.<\/p>\n<p>This is stored by default in the folder &#8220;c:\\Windows\\Debug\\msertl.log&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/scan_log_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"223\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/scan_log_2.png 462w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/scan_log_2-300x145.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Safety Scanner finds infected file and says at the end that everything is OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}