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<blockquote data-quote="bazang" data-source="post: 1114768" data-attributes="member: 114717">Officially and ultimately, Microsoft wants to remove any unmanaged user&#039;s ability to block Defender.Microsoft uses the term unmanaged to mean 1) any system not connected to a Microsoft Account (a local account, for example) or 2) any system not managed by an Administrator (not a home Administrator but an enterprise or government IT administrator).Sooner or later M$ will &quot;patch&quot; the various ways that users can block Defender. When I cannot say, but it has been on their bucket hit list for quite a while.M$ is OK with the whack-a-user game.One thing about Microsoft is that for the most part they don&#039;t care about what users can and cannot do on older builds of Windows. So if a system is not Windows 11 latest build then M$ will rarely release a patch for an older build to address what it considers to be a security gap or hole that results not from a bug or feature, but some unintended or unwanted way that Windows internals create the hole.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bazang, post: 1114768, member: 114717"] Officially and ultimately, Microsoft wants to remove any [B]unmanaged[/B] user's ability to block Defender. Microsoft uses the term [B]unmanaged[/B] to mean 1) any system not connected to a Microsoft Account (a local account, for example) or 2) any system not managed by an Administrator (not a home Administrator but an enterprise or government IT administrator). Sooner or later M$ will "patch" the various ways that users can block Defender. When I cannot say, but it has been on their bucket hit list for quite a while. M$ is OK with the whack-a-user game. One thing about Microsoft is that for the most part they don't care about what users can and cannot do on older builds of Windows. So if a system is not Windows 11 latest build then M$ will rarely release a patch for an older build to address what it considers to be a security gap or hole that results not from a bug or feature, but some unintended or unwanted way that Windows internals create the hole. [/QUOTE]

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