Windows Defender full scan gets stuck

posted by  sfiroz (91)  11 months ago (www.vistax64.com)

I have a relatively new laptop with Vista on it. Twice I've tried to run the
full scan on Windows Defender and both times it gets stuck after about 20
mins. I did not keep any info on the first time but on the second time, it
got stuck after 21 mins for about 30 mins. It has scanned 1229727 objects
and the object it was stuck on was
C:\SwSetup\WLASST\Disk1\WAAISetup.log->(UTF-16LE). I could not stop the scan
so I had to exit using task manager. The Definition version is 1.20.2825.10.

I have quick scan scheduled every day and it appears