Windows defender turned off by group policy vista
Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy and effectiveness of information. Please note: Information posted in the given link is hosted by a third party. Refer to this article below for detailed steps If you have Windows 10 build 18305 or higher installed, you will need to turn off Tamper Protection to be able to disable Microsoft Defender Antivirus. If you have a 3rd party AV program installed and disable Microsoft Defender Antivirus, this will also disable periodic scanning. In this case you may not be able to turn on Microsoft Defender Antivirus again until the 3rd party AV program has been disabled (turned off) or completely uninstalled.
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When you install some 3rd party antivirus (AV) programs, they may automatically turn off Microsoft Defender Antivirus.
Please don’t forget to Accept the answer and up-vote wherever the information provided helps you, this can be beneficial to other community members. Proceed to enable the group policy Turn off Windows Defender Antivirus in Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Windows Defender Antivirus or add the registry key. In order to disable this, I had to follow these instructions: This does two things: prevents you from creating the registry key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender by giving you a generic error message and also renders the group policy change ineffective. It turns out that Windows Defender is so ingrained within Windows 10 that it comes with its own "anti-tamper" protection.