Fix NPE in Windows Defender autofix Powershell script on first exclusion #1684
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If a user has no process-exclusion defined in its Windows Defender configuration yet, the expression '(Get-MpPreference).ExclusionProcess' returns null in the Powershell script to perform the exclusion. If a null reference is read, the variable is now initialized with an empty set.
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If a user has no process-exclusion defined in its Windows Defender configuration yet, the expression
(Get-MpPreference).ExclusionProcessreturns null in the Powershell script to perform the exclusion.If a null reference is read, the variable is now initialized with an empty set.