[deanhills]

A bit of a bad news I suppose?!

Absolutely bad news for me. Now if Microsoft's updates were good and didn't create as much harm as it has to date and there weren't so many people complaining, then OK. but wow, what a way to go! Someone is not paying attention. The reason people are forced to go into registries is because there is a problem in the quality of the updates. Fix that, and then they won't need to make these rules about something that should basically be under the owner of the computer's control. We have to pay for a license to use software and now find we don't really have the right to use the software as we feel fit to use. This is a form of despotism? And we have to pay for it on top of everything else, not only for Windows, but upgraded hardware in order to be fit to use up to date Windows.

In Windows 10 from build 20H2 you can no longer disable the Windows Defender Antivirus! The registry hack won't work and the group policy option also won't work. Microsoft has taken this steps as a sacrifice for the security of Windows users. The only way to disable it is to actually install another Antivirus that uses the Windows API properly and disables the Defender Antivirus component as long as it is running.

This sounds so weird. Do you know of an anti-virus that will disable Defender? Because if this is how it is going to work. Then I'll be completely happy. Now if one could get an anti-virus vendor to be totally on top of Windows 10 updates so much so it can defend one's computer against those updates that are bad for one's computer. Now that's a new future for anti-virus vendors. Or not?

I'm on Windows 10 Enterprise 20H2 and wanted to disable it. The GPO option didn't work and I was wondering why... after some research I found the information I mentioned above. The GPO actually just ads the registry hack to disable the Defender Antivirus. Since that registry hack has been removed the GPO is pretty useless for latest Windows builds.

Also found this: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/mi...-registry/

Wow! I didn't realize Windows 10 Enterprise was included as well. I thought only Windows 10 Home. But looks like it's across the board. I wonder whether someone could make a case of this in court? I'm getting fedup with prescribed security that may or may not be appropriate for my hardware.