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Why even i have the defender option all off.
Always re-enable itself and mostly the real-time protection??

And it need to run other program like defender control 2.1 to total disable without re-enable itself????
There isn't any other way without install any program?
 

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Do you have another anti-virus program installed?
 

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A new tool called 'Defendnot' can permanently disable Microsoft Defender on Windows devices by registering a fake antivirus product, even when no real AV is installed.

 

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Hmmmm....

GitHub - es3n1n/defendnot: An even funnier way to disable windows defender. (through WSC api)
Needs to stay on disk:
To keep the AV registration persistent after reboot, defendnot adds itself to autorun. That means the binaries have to remain on your system for the Defender "disable" to stick. (Yeah, I wish it were more elegant too.)
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Windows 11 updates disable defendnot · Issue #35 · es3n1n/defendnot
Just wanted to report that today Windows Update downloaded the May cumulative update for Windows 11 and suddenly I got a notification from Defender it had successfully removed a "malware"... i.e. it removed defendnot. So I guess Windows updates start Defender even if it has been disabled?
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Gregory said:
Always re-enable itself and mostly the real-time protection??
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Most likely, more people are being misled via social engineering to turn it off than there are people trying to turn it off legitimately. And/or for the latter group, there are workarounds like the other comments suggested.
 

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