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Can I remove Window's Defender and not cause problems on my computer?

  • January 23, 2015
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My computer says I have more than one security program running.  Can I delete Windows Defender as it's the only one besides WebBoot I see?

Best answer by nic

It's up to you - Webroot will run fine besides most other security software.  Since Windows Defender is free it doesn't hurt you any to have that running as well.

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    • January 23, 2015
    It's up to you - Webroot will run fine besides most other security software.  Since Windows Defender is free it doesn't hurt you any to have that running as well.
    Baldrick
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    • Baldrick
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    • January 23, 2015
    Hi Yve
     
    Welcome to the Community Forums.
     
    If I may offer a different view to Nic?
     
    Whilst everything that Nic has advised is correct I would approach it from the other perspective in that as WSA does everything that Window Defender does only much, much better, why put up with additional drag from a next to useless application?  Personally I would switch it off (you cannot actually remove WIndows Defender easily as it is built into Windows) and to understand how to do that please see this Microsoft article for Windows 7 here, (for Windows 8 just search the Microsoft site)on the subject.
     
    Hope that helps?
     
    Regards, Baldrick
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    • January 23, 2015
    Good point - no need to waste resources if you don't have to!
    Baldrick
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