windows defender
hello,
I helped a friend install win10 on his laptop. everything went fine, but I noticed that windows defender is still running scans and things like that, even though he has webroot installed.
I want to just use webroot. so would I disable defender simply by disabling the service? I thought it might be trickier than that since malware or viruses could easily do the same.
if it is just disabling the service is it called windows defender? Again I ask because that sounds too easy.
I helped a friend install win10 on his laptop. everything went fine, but I noticed that windows defender is still running scans and things like that, even though he has webroot installed.
I want to just use webroot. so would I disable defender simply by disabling the service? I thought it might be trickier than that since malware or viruses could easily do the same.
if it is just disabling the service is it called windows defender? Again I ask because that sounds too easy.
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Windows Defender have been permanently OFF for nearly the whole month I had Windows 10. It has never come back on.
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thank you for the help. for me the regedit worked. I didn't have gpedit, I think because it's home edition. I couldn't turn the service off in services, it was greyed out ( even as admin ) and in defender, if I turned it off, on reboot it would just come back on.
Yes, because you run an AV software that is recognized by defender. His isn't.
Follow up:
As McKnife noted or alluded to, Symantec Endpoint Protection turns Windows Defender OFF. That worked for over a month, and then it seems, after al the opportunity in the world, Windows Defender somehow got in the way after Patch Tuesday just past. I repaired SEP again and have now also used the GPO above turn Windows Defender OFF.
We will see in a month after next Patch Tuesday. Thank you.
As McKnife noted or alluded to, Symantec Endpoint Protection turns Windows Defender OFF. That worked for over a month, and then it seems, after al the opportunity in the world, Windows Defender somehow got in the way after Patch Tuesday just past. I repaired SEP again and have now also used the GPO above turn Windows Defender OFF.
We will see in a month after next Patch Tuesday. Thank you.