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jamjar

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Windows Defender
« on: September 08, 2011, 05:03:41 PM »
Hi

I have Avast and MBAM both with real-time protection enabled.

What's best to do with Defender? Turn it off completely or just turn off its real-time protection so that definitions get updated and manual scans are run periodically?
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Offline Pondus

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Re: Windows Defender
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2011, 05:07:40 PM »
in XP i remove it, in W7 i have turned it off
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Re: Windows Defender
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2011, 05:19:45 PM »
If you schedule Windows Defender to run only when the other tools are not scanning, and when you are not running other "heavy tasks", it is one more defense and it won't really bother you.

If you can't schedule it to run only when it won't bother you, then you can stop its use (as long as you keep scanning with other equivalent tools).
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Re: Windows Defender
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2011, 05:28:51 PM »
@ jamjar
With MBAM Pro on resident, personally I would disable windows defender (DW). That not only reduces resource overhead but also stops daily access to windows update (how WD gets its updates). On my win7 netbook, this is just one of the things I dislike about win7, the inability to completely remove WD, only disable.

Edit typo (DW) to (WD)
« Last Edit: September 08, 2011, 05:53:05 PM by DavidR »
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Re: Windows Defender
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2011, 05:38:19 PM »
Quote from: DavidR on September 08, 2011, 05:28:51 PM
@ jamjar
With MBAM Pro on resident, personally I would disable windows defender (DW). That not only reduces resource overhead but also stops daily access to windows update (how WD gets its updates). On my win7 netbook, this is just one of the things I dislike about win7, the inability to completely remove WD, only disable.
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