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Other Operating Systems => Windows 8 => Windows 8.1 Help and How to | Activation => Topic started by: javajolt on March 21, 2012, 06:34:20 AM
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Windows Defender anti malware directly integrated into the system and antivirus Security essentials offered through Windows Update and already number one in the U.S. , Microsoft reached a new milestone in pre-installing a solution against viruses. It would have been more logical to integrate directly Security Essentials but it is a roundabout way Microsoft has chosen by modifying the Windows Defender
anti-malware for it to detect and block viruses.
There is little doubt that Defender offers the same level of protection as Security Essentials, but there are a few feature differences in the Defender software itself..in the end its a free anti-virus software available for a couple of years.
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But even Microsoft has been making it to protect computers from any malwares,viruses its still not that good for that ...users need some antiviruses.
In this tutorials i will show you how Turn Windows Defender in windows 8 if you installed an other anti-Virus.
From Control panel click on Windows Defender
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Windows Defender window will open the click on Setting tab then select Administrator and uncheck the box Turn on windows Defender
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Windows Defender has been turned off
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Your Windows Defender had been disabled. DONE
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In Windows 7 the Defender was only a protection against spyware.
MSE (Microsoft security essentials) was the virus scanner.
In Windows 8 MSE should be integrated into Defender.
So: Is disabling Defender in Windows 8 turning off also the integrated virus scanner?
The text in Defender says only:
When this check box is selected, Windows Defender will alert all users if spyware or other potentially unwanted software attempts to run or install itself on this PC.