Windefender, other ms security tools: stop bunching fixes by category, do parallize disk scans

Question

windefender offline: I have individual fixes I need to apply. some of the stuff it's finding are invalid in my book and are good utilities I have written, and some in a given category like "hosts file possible hijack" may be a problem (1 or 2 files
maybe), but most are backups of my hosts file I wrote to eliminate ad servers and block malware servers and bad sites. and now windefender is trying to take my hosts file security measures out - all of them in every hard disk, as a single item. I cannot pick
and choose as I would like.
it's not an issue of how much RAM I have or how fast my cpu goes. I have 12 threads and 64GB RAM and 4 hard disks I think (which it scans disks only serially, not in job-queued parallel, which took 2-3 days - could have only taken hours - and yes, that would
require a different UI layout than a traditional single-line current filepath - how about a listbox?). ouch.
my mother has been asking for a pdf to be scanned, my computer is unusable during this scan time.
now windows defender offline - looks like the hard disk light has stopped blinking and the progress bar is at 75%, so I guess it's locked up sort of (GUI still responds, but not cleaning up like I told it to). time for the reset button. and it's been really
slow going, but at least it works 50% (scans OK, but doesn't clean). it is cleaning ISO files which may contain installers, zips, exes, many things. .tar, .tgz, etc. because I am a software developer.
please get this program to work. thanks.
it didn't find the problem I was intending, which was the malware infecting IE after visiting aclj.com, a malware-injecting spoof of the good site aclj.org.
please get  these programs to work before sending it out the door if possible. do some test suites. thank you.

Answer 1

windefender offline: I have individual fixes I need to apply. some of the stuff it's finding are invalid in my book and are good utilities I have written, and some in a given category like "hosts file possible hijack" may be a problem (1 or 2 files
maybe), but most are backups of my hosts file I wrote to eliminate ad servers and block malware servers and bad sites. and now windefender is trying to take my hosts file security measures out - all of them in every hard disk, as a single item. I cannot pick
and choose as I would like.
it's not an issue of how much RAM I have or how fast my cpu goes. I have 12 threads and 64GB RAM and 4 hard disks I think (which it scans disks only serially, not in job-queued parallel, which took 2-3 days - could have only taken hours - and yes, that would
require a different UI layout than a traditional single-line current filepath - how about a listbox?). ouch.
my mother has been asking for a pdf to be scanned, my computer is unusable during this scan time.
now windows defender offline - looks like the hard disk light has stopped blinking and the progress bar is at 75%, so I guess it's locked up sort of (GUI still responds, but not cleaning up like I told it to). time for the reset button. and it's been really
slow going, but at least it works 50% (scans OK, but doesn't clean). it is cleaning ISO files which may contain installers, zips, exes, many things. .tar, .tgz, etc. because I am a software developer.
please get this program to work. thanks.
it didn't find the problem I was intending, which was the malware infecting IE after visiting aclj.com, a malware-injecting spoof of the good site aclj.org.
please get  these programs to work before sending it out the door if possible. do some test suites. thank you.