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Antivirus deletes all shortcuts from the desktop
After this morning's update of security intelligence to version 1.381.2140.0, defender is deleting on all clients all links to applications; does anyone have the same problem?
Have released the updated to version 1.381.2152.0
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After updating and restarting, the links are no longer deleted.
The problem remains that if I run the search for a program it does not find it unless I add .exe (e.g., outlook.exe)
Once the ASR Rules is set to Audit Only, how do we restore all lnk shortcuts that the system removed? This is something that needs to be addresses as well. Sohel68
Brad_Stephenson1580there is no solution that MS can solve for you. You have to reinstall, repair or update your application, installers normally recreates the startmenu links. Fun part: several other types of files "may" be deleted, we saw js/cs/Windows Store Apps and lots of xml killed by Defenders ASR.
yongrheemsftMicrosoft
A group of MVPs has published a PS script to restore the .lnks on GitHub https://github.com/InsideTechnologiesSrl/DefenderBug/blob/main/W11-RestoreLinks.ps1
