Defender Remover : Uninstall / Disable Microsoft Defender

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Defender Remover 12.4 Open Source, Portable. Windows 7,8.x ,10 and 11

This application is removing / disables Windows Defender , including the Windows Security App, Windows Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) , Windows SmartScreen, Windows Security Services , Windows Web-Threat Service and Windows File Virtualization (UAC) , Microsoft Defender App Guard, Microsoft Driver Block List, and Windows Defender’s Settings Page (in Settings App , Winodws 10 or newer)…

Starting with Version 13, the app will move into GUI with Selection of application of Tweaks. Also this will keep the arguments section…

Remove Windows Defender from an ISO Image of Windows (needed an Windows 8/10/11 ISO Image)..

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And @Alex5723 will guide you through on how to fix the OS once borked.
I’m not sure this should be on the forum YMMV

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fernlady, geekdom

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Microfix wrote:

And @Alex5723 will guide you through on how to fix the OS once borked.
I’m not sure this should be on the forum YMMV

Its easy. Restore from Image 🙂

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Uninstalling Microsoft Defender strikes me as unwise. Don’t do this folks.

On permanent hiatus {with backup and coffee}
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IMHO Microsoft Defender for all intent and purposes shouldn’t be removed at all, just because it can be removed, doesn’t mean that it should be.
Ask yourself this, What happens (or doesn’t) once the installed 3rd party AV crashes, stops or fails with Defender removed?

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Why? IMHO Defender, along with some browser extensions, and a decent router w/SPI (stateful packet inspection, is all the average user needs. Of course a good password manager never hurts!

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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Defender Remover 12.4.2

“FIX! Fixes issues specified in #44 ,
NEW! If you have a PC with Microsoft Pluton Security Procesor and Windows 11 22H2 or newer, rhis script will support removal of Defender (and pluton driver)

Known issues:

If you use Hyper-V virtualziation services such Containers, Windows Subsystem foir Android/Linux , VM Manager, and/or Windows Sandbox, this will fail to run, because of an unknown bug.
nothing new about making the iso from .wim/esd.”

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Don’t do this, folks.

On permanent hiatus {with backup and coffee}
offline▸ Win10Pro 2004.19041.572 x64 i3-3220 RAM8GB HDD Firefox83.0b3 WindowsDefender
offline▸ Acer TravelMate P215-52 RAM8GB Win11Pro 22H2.22621.1265 x64 i5-10210U SSD Firefox106.0 MicrosoftDefender
online▸ Win11Pro 22H2.22621.1992 x64 i5-9400 RAM16GB HDD Firefox116.0b3 MicrosoftDefender

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Alex, seriously, this is a tool that does not add a single good thing to a system.

And people wonder why updates fail? Because we do stupid stuff like this.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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fernlady

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Susan Bradley wrote:

Alex, seriously, this is a tool that does not add a single good thing to a system.

According to AV test sites Microsoft Defender is a huge system hog.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=microsoft+defender+cpu+hog&atb=v211-1&ia=web

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“Huge” = A bit slower when copying 10,000 files.

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