I have windows Vista, and windows defender is built-in in the OS
I use NOD32 anti-virus 3.0, it has anti-virus and anti-spyware real time protection in it.
So, is it save for me to turn windows defender off ?
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I personally don't use Windows Defender. Frankly I think its spyware detection is crap, and it takes up background memory.
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thank you for all advices, I'll turn it off
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You can go one step further than mentioned in the above article.
-Click Start and type in "services" and open it up.
-scroll down to "Windows Defender"
-double click on it and under startup type select "Disable"
-click ok -
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I've got Comodo with defense + turned off and Threatfire also running, should
I turn off windows defender so ? -
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Ok Thanks guys, I was about to ask the same question, since the search function didn't produce the concrete answers I needed. I've just installed Comodo firewall pro and turned off my window firewall. Hope I did good. lol
Comodo rocks but it keeps prompting me for program access.
Should I turn off Windows Defender?
Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by roytse, Feb 10, 2008.