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How to disable Windows Defender
On 20/09/2019 04:38, RHB wrote:
From what I see there is very little control over Windows Defender. You can't even tell it to Return or Release or Ignore what it grabs and removes. *From what I see is that you are a complete idiot here wasting everybody's time.* -- With over 1,000,000 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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How to disable Windows Defender
"RHB" wrote in message
... "Big Bad Bob" wrote in message ... On 2019-09-17 11:59, RHB wrote: How can I disable Windows Defender? I don't want to use it because whenever I click allow or to replace something it removed it refuses to do so. I'm done with it. I would suggest finding a way to limit where it searches/scans to JUST an empty directory. that'll fix it! From what I see there is very little control over Windows Defender. You can't even tell it to Return or Release or Ignore what it grabs and removes. Absolute rubbish. Try the settings tab where you will find options to: .. Turn on/off Real Time Protection .. Exclude files & location .. Exclude file types .. Exclude processes .. Scan archive files/removable drives etc. History tab/View details button .. Remove/restore Quarantined files -- Regards wasbit |
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How to disable Windows Defender
On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 22:53:50 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 23:19:45 -0400, "RHB" wrote: "Ken Blake" wrote in message . .. On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:54:00 -0400, "RHB" wrote: "Ken Blake" wrote in message ... On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:41:41 -0400, "RHB" wrote: I'm not techie enough for that. Any idea how to remove or disable Windows Defender? Simply install another AV program. That will disable (not remove) Defender. No, it doesn't work that way. I downloaded Malwarebytes and it did not disable Windows Defender. Yes it does. Malware Bytes is *not* an AV program. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Not on my version of W-10. I have to do it manually. I found some info on the net that fit my version of 10. But on reboot MS WD is again turned on. There doesn't seem any way to disable it permanently. Malwarebytes doesn't stop WD from restarting on reboot. I think you're misunderstanding what several people have been saying. 1. If you install another AV program, WD will disable itself and stay disabled unless/until you remove the other AV program. 2. The reason that MalwareBytes doesn't cause WD to disable itself is because MalwareBytes is *not* an AV program. Thanks for saving me the trouble of posting the same reply. |
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How to disable Windows Defender
On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:39:43 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 22:53:50 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 23:19:45 -0400, "RHB" wrote: "Ken Blake" wrote in message ... On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:54:00 -0400, "RHB" wrote: "Ken Blake" wrote in message m... On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:41:41 -0400, "RHB" wrote: I'm not techie enough for that. Any idea how to remove or disable Windows Defender? Simply install another AV program. That will disable (not remove) Defender. No, it doesn't work that way. I downloaded Malwarebytes and it did not disable Windows Defender. Yes it does. Malware Bytes is *not* an AV program. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Not on my version of W-10. I have to do it manually. I found some info on the net that fit my version of 10. But on reboot MS WD is again turned on. There doesn't seem any way to disable it permanently. Malwarebytes doesn't stop WD from restarting on reboot. I think you're misunderstanding what several people have been saying. 1. If you install another AV program, WD will disable itself and stay disabled unless/until you remove the other AV program. 2. The reason that MalwareBytes doesn't cause WD to disable itself is because MalwareBytes is *not* an AV program. Thanks for saving me the trouble of posting the same reply. I basically copied your previous reply. :-) Hopefully, he'll pick up on it this time around. |
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How to disable Windows Defender
"wasbit" wrote in message ... "RHB" wrote in message ... From what I see there is very little control over Windows Defender. You can't even tell it to Return or Release or Ignore what it grabs and removes. Absolute rubbish. Try the settings tab where you will find options to: . Turn on/off Real Time Protection . Exclude files & location . Exclude file types . Exclude processes . Scan archive files/removable drives etc. History tab/View details button . Remove/restore Quarantined files There are no tabs in the version of Windows Defender my LTs have. I dont see those choices anywhere. -- Regards wasbit |
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How to disable Windows Defender
"Char Jackson" wrote in message ... On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 23:19:45 -0400, "RHB" wrote: Malwarebytes doesn't stop WD from restarting on reboot. I think you're misunderstanding what several people have been saying. 1. If you install another AV program, WD will disable itself and stay disabled unless/until you remove the other AV program. 2. The reason that MalwareBytes doesn't cause WD to disable itself is because MalwareBytes is *not* an AV program. Oh, OK... yes I did misunderstand. Thanks. :^) |
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How to disable Windows Defender
RHB wrote:
"wasbit" wrote in message ... "RHB" wrote in message ... From what I see there is very little control over Windows Defender. You can't even tell it to Return or Release or Ignore what it grabs and removes. Absolute rubbish. Try the settings tab where you will find options to: . Turn on/off Real Time Protection . Exclude files & location . Exclude file types . Exclude processes . Scan archive files/removable drives etc. History tab/View details button . Remove/restore Quarantined files There are no tabs in the version of Windows Defender my LTs have. I dont see those choices anywhere. Using the executable named "winver" can tell you what version of OS you're running. It's because there are a bunch of versions, we cannot tell you with any accuracy, what you'll see on some random settings page. It's hard to nail down without specifics. https://i.postimg.cc/SsgYczGx/window...-adventure.gif Use the download original button on Postimg, if you cannot make out the details in the image. That is a pretty big GIF. Lots of white space, which is a Windows 10 specialty. Try entering the name of a subsection in a search, to get there faster. Paul |
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How to disable Windows Defender
"RHB" wrote in message
... "wasbit" wrote in message ... "RHB" wrote in message ... From what I see there is very little control over Windows Defender. You can't even tell it to Return or Release or Ignore what it grabs and removes. Absolute rubbish. Try the settings tab where you will find options to: . Turn on/off Real Time Protection . Exclude files & location . Exclude file types . Exclude processes . Scan archive files/removable drives etc. History tab/View details button . Remove/restore Quarantined files There are no tabs in the version of Windows Defender my LTs have. I dont see those choices anywhere. Apologies. Seems I'm guilty of presuming that everyone sees the same - https://i.postimg.cc/Z5Zvny22/Windows-Defender.jpg -- Regards wasbit |
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How to disable Windows Defender
"wasbit" wrote in message ... "RHB" wrote in message ... How do I remove Windows Defender from my 2 laptops? I see nothing about permissions in WD. How To Uninstall, Disable, and Remove Windows Defender - https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/1578...w-turn-it-off/ The version of Windows Defender on my LTs doesn't look like this at all and doesn't have those choices under settings. Perhaps this shows an older version and no longer applies to the newer ones that come on Windows-10. All I have under Settings is Notifications and Security Providers. So I couldn't follow it past that point. |
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How to disable Windows Defender
"Paul" wrote in message ... RHB wrote: Try the settings tab where you will find options to: . Turn on/off Real Time Protection . Exclude files & location . Exclude file types . Exclude processes . Scan archive files/removable drives etc. History tab/View details button . Remove/restore Quarantined files I have version 1903 of Windows-10. I still can't find these choices in WD. There are no tabs in the version of Windows Defender my LTs have. Turn on/off Real Time Protection doesn't work. It's not clickable for example and nothing about Remove/restore Quarantined files etc. This is by far the worst anti-scumware I ever had to deal with and I can't get rid of it. The info online isn't really helpful because it doesn't match the version on my LTs. I still can't locate "Remove/restore Quarantined files." I really want this WD off my computers. What free anti-virus shuts it off or disables it? Would you know? Using the executable named "winver" can tell you what version of OS you're running. It's because there are a bunch of versions, we cannot tell you with any accuracy, what you'll see on some random settings page. It's hard to nail down without specifics. Version 1903 Build 18362.295 for what that's worth. WD is probably different on all the versions and builds. All rights reserved 2019. https://i.postimg.cc/SsgYczGx/window...-adventure.gif The images don't match my version but were close enough to find the turn off thing which is grayed out so WD can't be shut off temporarily to install something. Is there anyway around this problem or do we lose the use of our computers to a certain degree because MS is trying to protect us? Use the download original button on Postimg, if you cannot make out the details in the image. That is a pretty big GIF. Lots of white space, which is a Windows 10 specialty. Try entering the name of a subsection in a search, to get there faster. Paul The images there were OK. Thanks. |
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How to disable Windows Defender
"wasbit" wrote in message ... "RHB" wrote in message ... From what I see there is very little control over Windows Defender. You can't even tell it to Return or Release or Ignore what it grabs and removes. Apologies. Seems I'm guilty of presuming that everyone sees the same - https://i.postimg.cc/Z5Zvny22/Windows-Defender.jpg I realized that. No hard feelings..... |
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How to disable Windows Defender
RHB wrote:
"Paul" wrote in message ... RHB wrote: Try the settings tab where you will find options to: . Turn on/off Real Time Protection . Exclude files & location . Exclude file types . Exclude processes . Scan archive files/removable drives etc. History tab/View details button . Remove/restore Quarantined files I have version 1903 of Windows-10. I still can't find these choices in WD. There are no tabs in the version of Windows Defender my LTs have. Turn on/off Real Time Protection doesn't work. It's not clickable for example and nothing about Remove/restore Quarantined files etc. This is by far the worst anti-scumware I ever had to deal with and I can't get rid of it. The info online isn't really helpful because it doesn't match the version on my LTs. I still can't locate "Remove/restore Quarantined files." I really want this WD off my computers. What free anti-virus shuts it off or disables it? Would you know? Using the executable named "winver" can tell you what version of OS you're running. It's because there are a bunch of versions, we cannot tell you with any accuracy, what you'll see on some random settings page. It's hard to nail down without specifics. Version 1903 Build 18362.295 for what that's worth. WD is probably different on all the versions and builds. All rights reserved 2019. https://i.postimg.cc/SsgYczGx/window...-adventure.gif The images don't match my version but were close enough to find the turn off thing which is grayed out so WD can't be shut off temporarily to install something. Is there anyway around this problem or do we lose the use of our computers to a certain degree because MS is trying to protect us? Use the download original button on Postimg, if you cannot make out the details in the image. That is a pretty big GIF. Lots of white space, which is a Windows 10 specialty. Try entering the name of a subsection in a search, to get there faster. Paul The images there were OK. Thanks. Maybe this is Windows 10 Home that has these things grayed out ? I was able to turn off Real Time Protection in 1903, by doing two things. Turning off Tamper Detection. Using GPEDIT to turn off Real Time Protection. That seems to work, whereas the toggle in the GUI doesn't work reliably. You might check back in a few minutes and see CPU being wasted again. But with the GPEDIT to turn it off, that worked. It seems I *did* install a Windows 10 Home (perhaps in a VM) to test this out. You can see the settings I was playing with, here. https://i.postimg.cc/3NBpbVnN/kasper...sc-regedit.gif TamperProtection DWORD 0 DisableAntiSpyware DWORD 1 # needed to add this key The offline registry editor I was using, cannot edit all registries, so there are limits. But at least permissions won't be a problem. That's why you use an editor like that one (less back-talk). Paul |
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How to disable Windows Defender
On 9/21/19 10:50 AM, Paul wrote:
RHB wrote: "Paul" wrote in message ... RHB wrote: Try the settings tab where you will find options to: . Turn on/off Real Time Protection . Exclude files & location . Exclude file types . Exclude processes . Scan archive files/removable drives etc. History tab/View details button . Remove/restore Quarantined files I have version 1903 of Windows-10. I still can't find these choices in WD. There are no tabs in the version of Windows Defender my LTs have. Turn on/off Real Time Protection doesn't work. It's not clickable for example and nothing about Remove/restore Quarantined files etc. This is by far the worst anti-scumware I ever had to deal with and I can't get rid of it. The info online isn't really helpful because it doesn't match the version on my LTs. I still can't locate "Remove/restore Quarantined files." I really want this WD off my computers. What free anti-virus shuts it off or disables it? Would you know? Using the executable named "winver" can tell you what version of OS you're running. It's because there are a bunch of versions, we cannot tell you with any accuracy, what you'll see on some random settings page. It's hard to nail down without specifics. Version 1903 Build 18362.295 for what that's worth. WD is probably different on all the versions and builds. All rights reserved 2019. https://i.postimg.cc/SsgYczGx/window...-adventure.gif The images don't match my version but were close enough to find the turn off thing which is grayed out so WD can't be shut off temporarily to install something. Is there anyway around this problem or do we lose the use of our computers to a certain degree because MS is trying to protect us? Use the download original button on Postimg, if you cannot make out the details in the image. That is a pretty big GIF. Lots of white space, which is a Windows 10 specialty. Try entering the name of a subsection in a search, to get there faster. Paul The images there were OK. Thanks. Maybe this is Windows 10 Home that has these things grayed out ? I was able to turn off Real Time Protection in 1903, by doing two things. Turning off Tamper Detection. Using GPEDIT to turn off Real Time Protection. That seems to work, whereas the toggle in the GUI doesn't work reliably. You might check back in a few minutes and see CPU being wasted again. But with the GPEDIT to turn it off, that worked. It seems I *did* install a Windows 10 Home (perhaps in a VM) to test this out. You can see the settings I was playing with, here. https://i.postimg.cc/3NBpbVnN/kasper...sc-regedit.gif TamperProtection DWORD 0 DisableAntiSpyware DWORD 1 # needed to add this key The offline registry editor I was using, cannot edit all registries, so there are limits. But at least permissions won't be a problem. That's why you use an editor like that one (less back-talk). To ask a stupid sounding question... Would using a standard user account versus an administrator's account cause this? -- Ken MacOS 10.14.6 Firefox 69.0 Thunderbird 60.8 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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How to disable Windows Defender
Ken Springer wrote:
On 9/21/19 10:50 AM, Paul wrote: RHB wrote: "Paul" wrote in message ... RHB wrote: Try the settings tab where you will find options to: . Turn on/off Real Time Protection . Exclude files & location . Exclude file types . Exclude processes . Scan archive files/removable drives etc. History tab/View details button . Remove/restore Quarantined files I have version 1903 of Windows-10. I still can't find these choices in WD. There are no tabs in the version of Windows Defender my LTs have. Turn on/off Real Time Protection doesn't work. It's not clickable for example and nothing about Remove/restore Quarantined files etc. This is by far the worst anti-scumware I ever had to deal with and I can't get rid of it. The info online isn't really helpful because it doesn't match the version on my LTs. I still can't locate "Remove/restore Quarantined files." I really want this WD off my computers. What free anti-virus shuts it off or disables it? Would you know? Using the executable named "winver" can tell you what version of OS you're running. It's because there are a bunch of versions, we cannot tell you with any accuracy, what you'll see on some random settings page. It's hard to nail down without specifics. Version 1903 Build 18362.295 for what that's worth. WD is probably different on all the versions and builds. All rights reserved 2019. https://i.postimg.cc/SsgYczGx/window...-adventure.gif The images don't match my version but were close enough to find the turn off thing which is grayed out so WD can't be shut off temporarily to install something. Is there anyway around this problem or do we lose the use of our computers to a certain degree because MS is trying to protect us? Use the download original button on Postimg, if you cannot make out the details in the image. That is a pretty big GIF. Lots of white space, which is a Windows 10 specialty. Try entering the name of a subsection in a search, to get there faster. Paul The images there were OK. Thanks. Maybe this is Windows 10 Home that has these things grayed out ? I was able to turn off Real Time Protection in 1903, by doing two things. Turning off Tamper Detection. Using GPEDIT to turn off Real Time Protection. That seems to work, whereas the toggle in the GUI doesn't work reliably. You might check back in a few minutes and see CPU being wasted again. But with the GPEDIT to turn it off, that worked. It seems I *did* install a Windows 10 Home (perhaps in a VM) to test this out. You can see the settings I was playing with, here. https://i.postimg.cc/3NBpbVnN/kasper...sc-regedit.gif TamperProtection DWORD 0 DisableAntiSpyware DWORD 1 # needed to add this key The offline registry editor I was using, cannot edit all registries, so there are limits. But at least permissions won't be a problem. That's why you use an editor like that one (less back-talk). To ask a stupid sounding question... Would using a standard user account versus an administrator's account cause this? Maybe, but with Home, they're "mean" just in principle. They don't need an excuse. Paul |
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How to disable Windows Defender
"Paul" wrote in message ... RHB wrote: "Paul" wrote in message The images don't match my version but were close enough to find the turn off thing which is grayed out so WD can't be shut off temporarily to install something. Is there anyway around this problem or do we lose the use of our computers to a certain degree because MS is trying to protect us? Maybe this is Windows 10 Home that has these things grayed out ? I don't know if the 3 with W-10 are the Home version. I was able to turn off Real Time Protection in 1903, by doing two things. Turning off Tamper Detection. Using GPEDIT to turn off Real Time Protection. That seems to work, whereas the toggle in the GUI doesn't work reliably. You might check back in a few minutes and see CPU being wasted again. But with the GPEDIT to turn it off, that worked. It seems I *did* install a Windows 10 Home (perhaps in a VM) to test this out. You can see the settings I was playing with, here. https://i.postimg.cc/3NBpbVnN/kasper...sc-regedit.gif I don't have that. TamperProtection DWORD 0 DisableAntiSpyware DWORD 1 # needed to add this key The offline registry editor I was using, cannot edit all registries, so there are limits. But at least permissions won't be a problem. That's why you use an editor like that one (less back-talk). Paul |
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