Disable Windows Defender

Question

_{Sunday, November 8, 2015 9:11 PM | 1 vote}

Howdy,
According to this Microsoft article:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt577208%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

To Disable Windows Defender I have written the following code (Disable.bat):

REM Disable Windows Defender
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Spynet" /V "SpyNetReporting" /T REG_DWORD /D "0" /F

But it does not work, am I doing something wrong do you think?
Thanks :)

All replies (6)

_{Monday, November 9, 2015 7:14 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Navigate to ::

Windows Defender

You can opt of the Microsoft Antimalware Protection Service.

Use the registry to set the REG_DWORD value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Spynet\SpyNetReporting to 0 (zero).

The above is separate than stop sending file samples back to Microsoft.

_{Sunday, November 8, 2015 9:44 PM | 2 votes}

The article is titled "Configure telemetry and other settings in your organization" and looking at the settings my take is that to disabled the telemetry that Defender does, not defender.

Defender will be disabled when another anti-virus product is installed.

_{Sunday, November 8, 2015 9:50 PM | 1 vote}

open that page and look for Windows Defender, you will come up with disable registry entry!

_{Sunday, November 8, 2015 10:03 PM | 2 votes}

Hello, I did open that page, it's title is "Configure telemetry and other settings in your organization", the section on Defender looking at the registry settings (and the ones in your post) are related to Defender sending information These are provided for people with strict data polices that cannot allow any information accidently uploaded with submissions. These turn off Microsoft Active Protection Service (MAPS) and master data management (MDM) (SpyNetReporting), not Defender itself.

_{Monday, November 9, 2015 6:21 PM}

However, the issue is fixed on my side.

_{Monday, November 9, 2015 7:42 PM}

However, the issue is fixed on my side.

Well I guess you did a search and found the answer from other sites that give registry settings and group policy to disable Defender :)