Advice Request Have you allowed Windows Defender to scan your PC, periodically?

[Ink]

Limited Periodic Scanning allows Windows Defender to remain running in the background and periodically scan your PC for threats, even if you have another Antivirus installed for real-time protection.

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For what reason did you enable or disable Limited Periodic Scanning?

 

[_CyberGhosT_]

@Huracan
So you can do that from right there in settings, very good.
Traveling to Gpolicy to edit the settings seemed a bit excessive.
I notice there you can disable the periodic scanning yet leave realtime protection on strange they are not tied together.
Your "realtime" protection toggle is greyed out i noticed too, is that default after the update of did you tweak something ?
Nice post brother.

 

[Ink]

Your "realtime" protection toggle is greyed out i noticed too, is that default after the update of did you tweak something ?

Default, I didn't change any settings. Avast is my primary Antivirus.

 

[ForgottenSeer 54422]

Disabled windows defender in Group policy, trusting other software in doing a better job.

 

[ravi prakash saini]

Sometime it surprised me by detecting malware missed by another AV

 

[King Alpha]

Disabled windows defender in Group policy.

Same here. Annoyed because WD keeps turning on.

 

[LabZero]

After the Anniversary update, I plan to use WD as main anti-virus to test it after the improvements.

 

[Andytay70]

Default. I use Avast.

 

[Atlas147]

Doesn't seem to be an option for me

 

[_CyberGhosT_]

Doesn't seem to be an option for me

@Hanmin147
What edition of Windows 10 are you on Pro x64 ?

 

[XhenEd]

@Hanmin147
It seems that you haven't updated yet to the latest OS version.


That option, though, isn't available on my laptop.
I already updated a few hours ago and restarted more than twice, but that option isn't there. Maybe that's only available to the higher OS editions of Windows 10.
Mine is only Home Single Language.

 

[Atlas147]

@Hanmin147
It seems that you haven't updated yet to the latest OS version.


That option, though, isn't available on my laptop.
I already updated a few hours ago and restarted more than twice, but that option isn't there. Maybe that's only available to the higher OS editions of Windows 10.
Mine is only Home Single Language.

You're right! Having an update now, will check back with you

 

[Aura]

I did. I don't see the harm in a periodic scan from time to time. As long as it doesn't have FPs, I'm okay with it.

 

[_CyberGhosT_]

I did. I don't see the harm in a periodic scan from time to time. As long as it doesn't have FPs, I'm okay with it.

As long as it does not behave like it does before the patch pestering the user to do a quick scan every time it feels lonely, I had it disabled in the past for that, then tweaked it so it could not send
notifications to my desktop. lol

 

[DJ Panda]

Happy about the periodic scanning not really as heavy and glad to have something to back me up if Avast Tweaked fails somehow.

 

[SecretKeeper]

I have it on. It's a pretty nice feeling having your default Antivirus, MalwareBytes and now Windows Defender working together with no clashes.

 

[NekoHr]

Haven't updated Windows yet but I don't mind occasional scan if it is not intrusive. If they run it when system is idle and doesn't mind another AV on system, why not, no one is 100% so it might help.

 

[Pat MacKnife]

Disabled windows defender in Group policy , using a third party AV

 

[Janl1992l]

Completly disabled windows defender with registry changes so no.

 

[RmG152]

N/A - Windows Defender is my primary Antivirus.