Defender Security Center

I recently upgraded to the Creators edition of Windows 10. The
Windows Defender Security Center shield icon in the tray has a yellow
triangle with an exclamation point on it. What it is complaining
about is a device driver that I have intentionally disabled.

Background: My system has a old serial via USB device plugged in
called "The Energy Detective". It monitors my electricity usage.
Unfortuantely, Windows has alway thought it was a Microsoft Serial
BallPoint device. This issue is clearly the fault of the Energy
Detective designers for having used an ID that had already been used
by the Microsoft Serial BallPoint device, but there is no way they are
going to fix a decade old device. Every time I installed a new major
version of windows (XP, Vista, 7, 10, 10 anniversary, and now 10
creators), I have had to disable the BallPoint driver in order to get
the Energy Detective to work again. That is easy to do and has never
been a problem. I always disable the BallPoint driver but leave it
installed. Otherwise, it gets reinstalled after a cold boot when the
system thinks it has found new hardware.

With this version of windows, I get the yellow triangle. If I tell it
to ignore the issue, the green check mark shows up for a day or two,
but then the yellow triangle returns. Does anyone know to tell
Defender to permanently ignore the disabled Microsoft Serial BallPoint
driver? Maybe a registry entry?

Thanks,
Pat