Absolutely it does. I had one problematic file that I had to add it to the whitelist every month or so, otherwise Defender removed it. Nevermind the fact that a

Absolutely it does. I had one problematic file that I had to add it to the whitelist every month or so, otherwise Defender removed it. Nevermind the fact that adding it to the whitelist was a PITA, I never figured out why the setting haven't stuck; the file in question wasn't changing at all.