I wish there was a way to get rid of Windows Defender for good

[fade2black001]

Even permanently disabling seems to not work. As after a restart it goes back to default settings through Group Policy. It deleting files on its own that it deems a "virus" of some kind without user approval is complete BS.

[pythonmegapixel]

There is a way - buy a Mac

[fade2black001]

lol, not in my lifetime

[Levent]

Just now, pythonmegapixel said:

There is a way - buy a Mac

Very funny and extremely helpful.

 

OP: I follow this guide to dot and I dont have any issues with defender coming up afterwards.

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-permanently-disable-windows-defender-windows-10

[fade2black001]

1 minute ago, Levent said:

Very funny and extremely helpful.

 

OP: I follow this guide to dot and I dont have any issues with defender coming up afterwards.

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-permanently-disable-windows-defender-windows-10

I believe that guide is what I followed but for some reason it didn't save the settings, hopefully I fixed it now

[Spudwell06]

Screw Mac OS

Code your own custom Linux distro and you can actually buy it for less than a Kidn€y

[WkdPaul]

19 minutes ago, fade2black001 said:

I believe that guide is what I followed but for some reason it didn't save the settings, hopefully I fixed it now

You can also simply add exceptions in the settings when needed ? That's what I do and I don't have issues (I mine a bit and Defender see all mining software as virus or UWP and usually block them).

[Mark Kaine]

37 minutes ago, fade2black001 said:

It deleting files on its own that it deems a "virus" of some kind without user approval is complete BS

agreed it is, because it doesn't do that with the right settings (which may be difficult to figure out admittedly but isn't rocket science either, my defender settings are close to the default and it's never deleted anything without asking me how to proceed first) 

 

edit: idk on top of my head, but can post em later, there's really just a few things you need to change - if that's even required I can't remember it ever just deleting stuff or not notify me about 'malicious software' it found. 

[RejZoR]

16 hours ago, fade2black001 said:

Even permanently disabling seems to not work. As after a restart it goes back to default settings through Group Policy. It deleting files on its own that it deems a "virus" of some kind without user approval is complete BS.

That's because casual users would otherwise just allow everything, even all the malicious stuff. If it's done automatically, it's to much of a hassle. It's generally better to have false positives and be safe than ignore them and potentially infect systems. Which is why this is a preferred method. 20 years ago they all had manual approval by user, but they all replaced it with this. WD, given it's made for normies has minimal settings and doesn't offer this. Kaspersky, avast! and bunch of "better" options have an option in setings where it then asks you what to do on detection. But you need to enable it manually.