Hi,
Try a week
WD is one of the most useless scanners there is.
Rely on your Real antivirus program which again is Avast to scan and find stuff and turn defender off.
I use Panda free and mbam premium and that's it
I do have superantispyware pro but hardly use it anymore.
I'm glad I don't claim to be too bright on all this... I *thought* (the nice was to say 'assumed') that WD was the same as Malwarebytes free in that you just ran it from time to time with the exception of WD would auto-run at times.
So I didn't understand your prompting to turn it 'off'; not knowing it was even 'on.' Heck, I've never seen it running under Processes in Task Manager. So for the first time, I checked out WD's Options this morning and found out what you already knew: it does things like scan downloads, programs that run, and more.
Thanks for the lesson. :)
Hi,
Even it says you shouldn't have 2 antivirus programs installed so yea WD not being turned off by default is weird it should be,
2 antivirus programs will slow your computer down and you would be less secure because these 2 antivirus programs will conflict with each other.
Avast is miles better stick with it.
Until this thread, I didn’t even know WD was an ‘antivirus’ program! …just a malware program, like for home page jacking and the like.
So, this is what I’ve done to turn it off. If there’s anything else I need to, please let me know:
In options:
- unchecked Automatically scan my computer
- nothing done under Default Actions
- unchecked Use real time protection
- nothing done under Excluded
- unchecked everything under Advanced
- and lastly, unchecked ‘Use this program’ under Administrator.
(it would have been nice if the Admin section was on top! LOL)
Since I did the above while clacking out this reply, I'm going to reboot and see what happens.
Hmmm... I guess I should do this to my 'Better Half's computer, too.
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Great! Thanks for all the help and guidance, ThrashZone.
Disable Windows Defender Service. Disable Windows Defender scheduled task.
Disable Windows Defender Service:
Start> Run then type services.msc.
Scroll down to Windows Defender Service - right click then set startup type to disabled.
Also in Task Scheduler set Windows Defender "MP Scheduled Scan" task to disabled.
Last edited by Callender; 07 Aug 2016 at 08:42. Reason: fix indent
Hi,
The service should be okay at manual
I do not show any scheduled task for WD either :/
Probably good to double check though :)
Thanks Callender. I now have it disabled on both computers.Disable Windows Defender Service. Disable Windows Defender scheduled task.Disable Windows Defender Service:
Start> Run then type services.msc.
Scroll down to Windows Defender Service - right click then set startup type to disabled.Also in Task Scheduler set Windows Defender "MP Scheduled Scan" task to disabled.
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