A friend of mine *cough* has pirated software on his PC. Use a different AV and defender automatically shuts off. You can use free malwarebytes. No more problems.
Lots of AVs flag cracks and keygens, that's nothing special about WD. So, no need to worry about that.
i'm sorry we don't remember what exactly was said there since that original forum thread no longer exists or was renamed
I always disable defender when building my winpe files as it tends to flag some of the utilities I include, ie, ProduKey. After a period of time it self enables again. Not sure how long it takes to re-enable but I'm well done by then...
This is pretty common. Most AV engines will flag "PUP" applications, "Potentially Unwanted Programs". When it comes to game trainers, those are often legitimate flags. Most trainers work by injecting themselves into memory to modify a running game. This is highly fishy behaviour. It's appropriate for AV engines to react to this behaviour. Thus you often have to whitelist them. I agree that Windows Defender in Windows 11 is getting rather annoying. Fewer and fewer features can be disabled without them re-enabling themselves or keep on nagging you via notifications and various warnings. My solution is installing a lightweight third-party AV that integrates with Windows Security Center. This disables most Windows Defenders features automatically and stays disabled as long as my lightweight AV is installed and active. Then I modify all settings in the third-party AV to my liking, and the third-party AV tends to respect my settings and not nag about any of them constantly. I had great luck with Windows-Defender-Remover by ionuttbara in the past. But sadly, it has started not to work anymore. Even after running it, Windows Defender is no longer being removed, and often it breaks Microsoft Store, and I need Microsoft Store to fully utilise winget, Windows Terminal etc.
Also make sure to disable Smart App Control (Settings -> Privacy & security -> Windows Security -> App & browser control -> Smart App Control). This being on also causes small delays in programs loading, which is how I first traced it after a certain update. It'll warn that you can't turn it back on once off, but I always turn it off. This settings holds in sysprep too so you can capture images with this off easily.
Best solution is to keep a folder for cracked apps , keygens and exclude that folder in defender settings. first thing i do after windows installation is this.
^^ This is the way.. if you must fight Defender. Always add my network shares also...as Defender will pull some BS and remove stuff there, if not careful
I use this OPTION via windows defender settings: a most "secure" way ..... OR..... You can "Winrar" the various files/doc/etc with a PASSWORD & Encrypt file names: see below:
Even cracks from 2017 and even 2014 are no longer working. After downloading cracks from several internet sources, installing the app, shutting it down, and patching in the crack files, dll's or whatever, then relaunching the apps, they still just show Demo. What's weird is there are a lot of websites now that deliberately fool you into downloading their cracks, just to lead you on a wild goose chase. It used to be you could just delete a key/value in the registry to reset trialware. Not any more. Things seem a lot different now. Perhaps the 14 yr old kids know what's going on. haha
The latest KMS ALL worked fine, without stopping WDef when activating W11/Office. I haven't managed to go from there yet but Kaspersky Total Security is mainly OK with "exclusions" done properly... From previous W versions experiences... So, when it takes over from WDef you can control it pretty well from there...