Does it include update for antimalware platform?

Matthew Wai said:

Does "WDA" stand for "Windows Defender Antimalware"?
When I say "antimalware platform", I mean "Windows Defender antimalware platform".

No, my WDA above means Windows Defender Antivirus, but I should have written WD.

It seems what you mean by "antimalware platform" is not within Windows Defender (anti-virus + anti-malware to my understanding, as indicated in the PDF file). If that's the case, I misunderstood you.

When Windows Defender was first released years ago it was an anti-virus only.

The newer version is a combined anti-virus and anti-Malware and has been for a few years.

Jim

Phone Man said:

When Windows Defender was first released years ago it was an anti-virus only.
The newer version is a combined anti-virus and anti-Malware and has been for a few years.
Jim

Yep, that's how I understand it. Then, MS incorporates WD with Windows Firewall and others into Windows Security in Windows 10.

I had disabled automatic Windows updates. I had never manually installed an antimalware platform update. Yesterday, after I manually ran a script file containing "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" "-SignatureUpdate", WUMT showed that an antimalware platform update was installed. I suspect the update was installed via the command.

At least, the script works to update your antimalware platform, according to WUMT.