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Applications that depend on Windows Task Scheduler may stop responding. The issue is intermittent, and occurs only on computers that are protected by the 1.1.15700.x version of Microsoft Malware Protection Engine. The following products use this engine:
To resolve this issue, update the threat definition files. For information about how to check and update these files, see Definition updates for Windows Defender Antivirus and other Microsoft antimalware on the Windows Defender Security Intelligence website.
Make sure that the current threat definition version is 1.1.287.94.0 or a later version.
Important
After you update the threat definition files, you must restart the computer.
An issue occurs intermittently in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine version 1.1.15700.x. This issue may cause an application to stop responding if the application relies on the Task Scheduler to manage its operations.
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