These include copying, archiving and unarchiving files, installing and launching applications, downloading files, and browsing websites. The Performance Test looks at the speed impact of each of the tested products in everyday usage situations. 17 popular anti-malware programs were evaluated to assess their speed impact.ĪV-Comparatives releases results of Autumn 2021 Speed-Impact Test for Consumer Antivirus Products My Chromebook never treated me like this.įEEDBACK Get in touch with me privately by email at my full name at Gmail.As part of its ongoing Consumer Main-Test Series, AV-Comparatives has released the results of its October 2021 Performance Test for consumer security solutions. This really begs the question of whether Windows anti-virus software helps more than it hurts. Perhaps I should have rebooted after modifying the registry. Still, there was a small scare afterwards. Windows Defender initially complained (above) that its service was stopped, and clicking the button to start it, produced my old friend, the message that "This program is blocked by group policy".īut that was a scam, everything worked fine in Windows Defender. Running Windows Defender the first time after re-enabling it in the registry You have to be logged on as an Administrator to change this field, restricted users can only view the current value. Changing the 1 to a 0 was all that it took. On the computer with Avast installed, it was 1. If it is zero, then Windows Defender can run free. The critical registry key is DisableAntiSpyware. HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender
In brief, the fix was to run regedit and navigate to The solution that worked for me (Windows 7, 64 bit) was documented here: How to Fix Error Code 0x800704ec when Turning On Windows Defender. The article offers three solutions, I used the one that updates the registry, but, of course, not until I made a Restore Point. Despite the error message from Windows, Avast had not used group policy to disable Windows Defender.
Online searches turned up assorted suggestions for configuring group policy, but that wasn't my problem.
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