UI Fail - disabling Windows Defender
I feel a little silly this morning. When I setup my new Vista box a few weeks ago I installed my CA Security Center that I love and uninstalled Windows Defender - or at least I thought I had. I swear I saw it in Add & Remove Programs and got rid of it.
Well, this morning it popped up saying that an update failed. ??
So I looked again and sure enough when i searched in CP for defender there was still a link to it. So I opened it and it said that scanning was disabled but run-time protection was still on. I looked in Tools > Options but there's nothing much there.
After some googling though, many people were talking about diabling run-time protection in the options page.
And of course, they were right, I'm a bozo. Look carefully below:
Just a few options right? And no tabs, so no more "hidden options" on there? Nope, I'm a dummy because they put *scrollbars* on an options dialog. Silly me. Scroll down and there are loads more options, including checkboxes for disabling real-time protection and even "Use Windows Defender" where you can disable the whole thing.
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