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Harden Windows Safely, Securely using Official Supported Microsoft methods and proper explanation | Always up-to-date and works with the latest build of Windows | Provides tools and Guides for Personal, Enterprise, Government and Military security levels | Read The Rationale https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security/blob/main/Rationale.md
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#Bypass the Windows Defender Checks (with 3rd Party AV) #103

Closed Saltinbank-SyS closed 1 year ago

Saltinbank-SyS commented 1 year ago

Hi Lady, sorry to bother you ...

I want to ask you if there is an option to bypass the checks and the message saying that WD is in passive mode (asking to remove 3rd party AV) ? Thank you for the tool and the wiki (lot of interresting stuff to know about).

Thank you in advance. Cheers, Saltinbank.

HotCakeX commented 1 year ago

hi, the code is simply making sure all the requirements are met.

3rd party AVs are totally unnecessary as Microsoft Defender and all of the features the module turns on are superior, but also not compatible with other AVs, users tried to combine 3rd party AVs with the module and had incompatibility issues.

If there is even a single scenario where a 3rd party AV caught something but MDAV after applying this module didn't, let me know so we can think about something else. So far, it's been always the other way around, the built-in features in Windows that the module turns on have been so much better than any 3rd party vendor's product. This also reduces your attack surface because you don't have to install anything or worry about vulnerabilities and bugs in that software that can be exploited.

Thank you ^^