[DISCUSSION] Disabling Microsoft Defender Antivirus (formerly Windows Defender)

This is all you need. No issues, no delays, nothing. Can be reverted with a single click

 

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now they made it sticky...
the world is going to end ... no hope.
dead serious

you can use some registry trick to stop the defender tool
and set some service as [4] state == Disabled
and keep it, to avoid problems [CU updates, 22h2 updates, can fail]
your system will be fine even with Defender disabled -
because files, services, packages are found...
and it can be reverted back if you need it in future

it stays in a frozen state ..........

 

You might have disabled Defender Firewall or System Guard.

 

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there is no point now.
you already remove it completely
[ same thing you complain about, in the first place ]
but I guess you have plenty of time to re-install the system,
after you face a problems .....

Code:

Reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SecurityHealthService" /f >nul 2>&1
Reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Sense" /f >nul 2>&1
Reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WdBoot" /f >nul 2>&1
Reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WdFilter" /f >nul 2>&1
Reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WdNisDrv" /f >nul 2>&1
Reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WdNisSvc" /f >nul 2>&1
Reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinDefend" /f >nul 2>&1

 

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You can configure it with group policies and make it really weak if you want to.

 

Did you disable tamper protection first?

 

defender has become so integrated to windows is becoming harder to tweak it with out damaging the OS is some manner.

 

myabc, just curious, are you going to replace Defender with another antivirus/firewall combo?

 

This is not very wise talk. Nothing will not deleted if you don't want it yourself, even if there is whatever malware, it will not touched. And there is no script needed at all and never, simply open settings and select what and where shoud somethong checked and what to do with suspicious files. Thats it.

 

Best antivirus is using your brain imho

 

Please can you tell me more? If I have in d:/softwares/winrar/keygen the keygen.Exe file (always deleted from defender) , do you help me for doing what you said? Step by step please. Thanks

 

1. Open Defender
2. go to table Virus & threat protection
3. find Manage settings
4. go to Exclusions and clik on Add or remove exclusions
5. if new table opens, there is drop-down menu + Add an exclusion
6. now select what you want to add, ie is it folder, is it file, is it some kond file type or some process and follow the directions

Usually all takes effect immidiately, but if don't, restart computer.
Now you can test and if something still don't work, can reset or protect for example whole folder or directory and also file itself by file name with its extensions.
I can say only that for me it have always worked perfectly with all Windows versions. Currently I'm on Windows 10, but if tried Windows 11, it also worked fine.

 

Thanks, I will try

 

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To Remove built in bloats ..
Why we need this app ..
Force apps on users ..