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		ChoGGi on Jan 26, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software I've heard if you disable the service directly, then the "Windows Defender reports that the service is turned off" message stops happening. `sc.exe config "WinDefend" start= disabled sc.exe stop "WinDefend"`

lmm on Jan 26, 2017 [–]

No good I'm afraid, gave me:

    [SC] OpenService FAILED 5:

    Access is denied.

(this is from an administrator command prompt)

lmm on Jan 27, 2017 | [–]

For the record: you can turn it off using the group policy editor.

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