Where is the quarantine folder for Microsoft Safety Scanner?

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I've been using the free Microsoft Safety Scanner for years, dating back to when it was the One Care Safety Scanner (part of a paid protection plan Microsoft once had for business usage). But everyday users had access to the scanner & better yet, had the opportunity to choose if the file was safe or not, rather than making the decision on our behalf. We should have a say in the matter, in hindsight I guess we do, just don't run the software.


Have looked everywhere for the folder, all I can find is Windows Defender data, some in rather large encrypted files that cannot be opened with 7zip or other conventional tools.


The only reason 'why' I chose to run the Microsoft Safety Scanner (I believe in short, MSERT), which by default runs a short scan during Patch Tuesday & has for many years, is for an extra layer of protection, to catch what ESET/Malwarebytes & other manual tools may miss. MSERT has newer definitions than the MRT tool used at Windows Update.


Am disappointed that we no longer have a choice when runing this scanner, at least Windows Defender allows for exclusions. MSERT & MRT doesn't.


If anyone knows where the folder is located, please post, I'd love to hear from you, even if the file(s) has been encrypted and/or deleted entirely. At least I'll know what's going on & can decide whether or not to download & run MSERT in the future. One of the two files found proved to be an actual threat (Trojan:Win64/Longage) after research, the other was clean (a game bundle from 2014 labled as a keygen). Yet it would had been great to have had a choice in the matter.


Thanks in advance for any useful answers.


Regards,


Cat

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