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Terminology
- Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is the antivirus/anti-phishing feature built into your Microsoft 365 subscription for both Windows and macOS. Defender monitors your account and quarantines suspicious messages.
- Microsoft Defender quarantine report is a weekly email from quarantine@ecu.edu that lists your quarantined messages. You can visit the quarantine page to review, release or delete some messages. Known phishing messages cannot be released.
- Report button in Exchange email allows you to report phishing emails or junk not quarantined by Defender. This button is located in your Outlook menu ribbon.
Manage quarantined messages
- Access this web page anytime through security.microsoft.com/quarantine. This link can also be found in your weekly digest email as shown here:
Windows 11/New Outlook
- Some options like, Review Message, Request Release and Block Sender, are available in the quarantine email.
- Report options include: Release,* Request release,* Delete, Preview message, View message headers, Allow sender and Block sender.
*Some messages, such as "High Confidence Phish" messages, cannot be released.
Report phishing or junk
Occasionally, you might receive messages that need to be reported as a phishing or junk message. This is easy through the Microsoft Report button located in the Exchange/Outlook menu ribbon or the Report feature in the right-click menu.
