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Offline Tom610

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Unsolved Bug: Patchmananagement shows Windows Defender Updates
« on: February 03, 2023, 12:51:33 PM »
Some of you might see that Avast PM will offer Windows Defender Updates although you might have removed it on your servers?

This is a known issue. Last Statement from Avast is:

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I completely understand the frustration, but unfortunately, this query is completely out of our scope of reach.

We do not have any insights in Ivanti's processes of work. Additionally, the part of the root cause is probably also on Microsoft end and the way they configured some parts of Windows Defender to be more resilient, so in order to completely shut down Windows Defender the registry modification is needed.

We are aware that this is not the ideal solution, but currently this is the only way to permanently keep Windows Defender turned off.

I'll give an update for a workaround of this bug.
« Last Edit: March 02, 2023, 08:29:25 AM by Tom610 »

Offline Tom610

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Here's the workaround:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Defender
DisableAntiVirus
REG_DWORD
00000001
Hex

Can be implemented by GPO...