Win10 Creator's Update, Windows Defender and auto file submission

[mikeymikec]

Something that quite surprised me with the most recent version of Windows Defender is that if you don't have auto file submission enabled, WIndows 10 flags Defender as being in a problematic state.

If someone knows of a way to disable flagging for that specific reason only, I'd very much like to know it.

I fail to see why it might be such an issue for Defender to pop up a message asking the user if it's OK to submit a file for further testing to MS, as that's the way it's always been done.

 

[PeterRoss]

I would assume, that it becomes more of a disclosure than anything else, they might check files you don't think are necessary, and that causes issues for people. It is not a problem for you because you understand why and under what circumstances it should be done. But for an average user that is entirely unnecessary. Unfortunately, I don't know a way of doing it. I would like to know one myself.