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by colejohnson66 1795 days ago
Not sure why you’d want to disable virus protection, but Microsoft has a guide should you want to: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/turn-off-defende...
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bob1029 1795 days ago
> Follow these steps to temporarily turn off real-time Microsoft Defender antivirus protection in Windows Security.

How long is "temporary"?

> Not sure why you’d want to disable virus protection

Because Microsoft's implementation drags ass when fighting with one of Microsoft's other terrible messes - visual studio.

Also. It's my fucking computer.

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topkai22 1795 days ago
You can (depending on group policy if domain joined) disable real time scanning on individual processes, files, and folders in a more permanent manner IRC.
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mattbee 1795 days ago
There's a registry (or group policy?) tweak to turn it off for good.

It was absolutely necessary on my 2015-era laptop, especially in the era of WSL1 where every Linux-side file operation caused a Defender operation - made a huge difference running test suites, git operations and so on.

I've tried to leave it on my new laptop (esp on WSL2 where Defender doesn't get a look-in) but I can _smell_ when it's slowing me down.

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