My notebook is managed by the corporate IT. Windows Defender is enabled and configured through group policy, and it seems to be impossible to disable. Even IT cannot disable it in the usual way (they tried the powershell/registry method that can be found on many sites) because of tamper protection. It’s Win10 22H2, I’m local admin. Any ideas? Nothing worked so far.
Ideally, it would be good to disable it in a way that it can be activated later. If it dies permanently, that’s cool too. E.g. delete its files or something like that. Without some hacks we cannot do anything: security options are disabled, registry protected, group policy is overwritten from the network or my settings are ignored. Installing another virus killer (Avira) did not help, defender remained active.
The problem is that the Windows Defender related tasks (Antimalware Service Executable, Advanced Threat Protection Service Executable / Sense NDR module and the like) continuously produce significant CPU load. As much as 40% when the computer is anyway idle. Everything is slow and the machine is running hot. The idea is killing defender and installing another solution.
