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newsposter:
I whipped up this .reg file to add MC-specific items as exclusions for Windows Defender.  The C: and L: drive paths shown are specific to my machine and layout.  They would need to be changed or normalized for other users. In spite of the dword = 0, the entries seem to be working just fine, the dword doesn't seem to indicate anything, but researching it anyway.

PowerShell has a load of in-built functions to manipulate Windows Defender.  If someone wants to add an advanced MC configuration menu item to push changes to Defender, these will do it.  The three most applicable functions are Add-MpPreference, Set-MpPreference, and Remove-MpPreference.

But using a pre-set registry file is probably good-enough for most people.

/begin example
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Exclusions\Paths]
"L:\\Libraries\\Music\\"=dword:00000000
"C:\\Program Files\\J River"=dword:00000000
"C:\\Users\\ckkli\\AppData\\Roaming\\J River"=dword:00000000
"L:\\Libraries\\Pictures\\IncomingCoverArt"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Exclusions\Processes]
"C:\\Program Files\\J River\\*"=dword:00000000
//fin



File and folder exclusions are stored in this registry key:

 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Exclusions\Paths

File type exclusions are stored in this registry key:

 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Exclusions\Extensions

Process exclusions are stored in this registry key:

 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Exclusions\Processes

Hiroshi:
I tried a clean Windows re-install, but could not fix it.  However by coincidence, I found that my Bluetooth Keyboard was causing the problem. When I switch off my keyboard, playback does not stop, so initially I doubted that my keyboard was causing the problem.
Recently strange enough, I discovered that with latest MC27 27.0.85, this problem is gone.
So maybe MC27 had a bug from some point.

macdonjh:
I am new to MC for Windows, so I'm catching up...  Thanks to JimH, doof, terrym, Awesome Donkey, RodrickGI and others who are so helpful.

I've read several times is different threads media files shouldn't be scanned.  I understand not scanning them in real time, or even automatically.  However, with all the downloading (rather than ripping from CDs) people are doing, should media files be scanned once on Import or after adding to your media folder but before Import)?

JimH:
Not during import.

I would not even advise scanning media files.  I've never known of a virus that was embedded in a media file.

syndromeofadown:

--- Quote ---I've never known of a virus that was embedded in a media file.
--- End quote ---
I have had wma files flagged by AV software. Long ago when I briefly looked into it, I read something along the lines of wma/wmv instructing certain software (windows media player) to install a required codec. This codec could be replaced by a virus. Maybe this was a thing in 2002. I can't imagine anything other than windows media player being affected by it. Even in this situation the file itself isn't a virus, just a link to the possibility of one. I had a very small amount wma files, I deleted most and replaced the rest with an alternate format to stop the annoyance.

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