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Event ID 1118: … has encountered a non-critical error when taking action on malware or other potentially unwanted software

Windows Event ID Lookup: What Windows event IDs mean: 4625, 4624, 4740, 6008, 41, 7045, 1102 and 3,000 more, with Windows' own message text, the fields and what to check.

Look up a Windows event ID from Event Viewer, a SIEM alert or a log export: what it means, the fields it records, and what to check. Many IDs are used by more than one source (event 41 is both a Kernel-Power crash and a boot error), so every definition is shown, the one people usually mean first. The message text is Windows' own, read from the event providers of Windows 10.0.26200.0, 2026-10-28; the notes are ours, based on Microsoft's security auditing reference.

Try: 4625, 4624, 4740, 6008, 41, 1074, 7045, 1102, 4104, 1149

… has encountered a non-critical error when taking action on malware or other potentially unwanted software.

Event 1118
Windows Defender
Windows Defender/Operational log
Information
Message and fields (as Event Viewer shows them)
… has encountered a non-critical error when taking action on malware or other potentially unwanted software.
 For more information please see the following:
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 	Name: …
 	ID: …
 	Severity: …
 	Category: …
 	Path: …
 	Detection Origin: …
 	Detection Type: …
 	Detection Source: …
 	User: …
 	Process Name: …
 	Action: …
 	Action Status:  …
 	Error Code: …
 	Error description: …
 	Security intelligence Version: …
 	Engine Version: …