Question Windows Defender and a DAW

[timboalogo]

Hi,

I run a Digital Audio Workstation on Win 10, using Cakewalk as my DAW software and Windows Defender as my antivirus. I've excluded the audio folders and folders where my audio plugins reside so the DAW works efficiently.

When I load a project I see "Antimalware Service Executable" take a few percent of the CPU, which, if I've done all the proper excluding, shouldn't happen. I'm wondering if there's a way to see the log for the files Defender is scanning at this point so I can further exclude folders and files. I realize that Defender could be doing something else during the project load, but I'd like to be sure.

Is this possible with Win 10's Defender or am I dreaming?

Thanks,
Tim

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Well, it has to run in order to parse the exclude/include list and compare against what is being accessed. It's going to take some CPU time to do that. Nothing you can do about that.

 

[Ralston18]

I would think that Windows Defender has to do some initial scan to look at the file types and then ignore the excluded file types.

You might be able to get a closer look via Process Explorer.

Microsoft, free.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

 

[timboalogo]

Thanks guys, that's obviously the answer.

 

[timboalogo]

Sorry but it leaves me with the question that I asked above: "I'm wondering if there's a way to see the log for the files Defender is scanning at this point ?"

 

[ex_bubblehead]

No such log is kept. Only what exceptions were found.

 

[timboalogo]

Thanks!