My Windows Defender is turned off and cannot be turned on. Was that done by Webroot, and can the Defender operate with Webroot?
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Hello maulwowi
Welcome to the Community Forum,
Would you tell me what opearating system you are running?
I would approach 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 keep 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.
As soon as you install any third-party antivirus on a Windows 8/Windows 8.1 computer, due to the built-in feature of many of the third-party antivirus applications, the Windows Defender is automatically turned off. When this happens, Windows 8/Windows 8.1 informs you about this with an information in the message box that pops up when you type Windows Defender in the Search field from the Charms bar.
If you feel comfortable doing registry changes? But I don't see the need to as WSA is much better than Windows Defender can ever be!
Windows Defender Tweak if users want to run with WSA on Windows 8 or Windows 8.1
Windows 8.1 detects other AVs in the Action Center and blocks Defender from becoming active.
You can create a value of type DWORD named HideActionCenter (under HKLMSoftwareWRData on 32bit or for 64bit HKLMSoftwareWow6432NodeWRData) set to '1' and reboot and it will prevent Webroot from adding into the Action Center to allow Defender to stay active.
And the answer to whether Webroot can run along side Windows Defender is yes if you want it to.
Hope this helps and if not please get back to us.
Kind Regards,
Welcome to the Community Forum,
Would you tell me what opearating system you are running?
I would approach 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 keep 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.
As soon as you install any third-party antivirus on a Windows 8/Windows 8.1 computer, due to the built-in feature of many of the third-party antivirus applications, the Windows Defender is automatically turned off. When this happens, Windows 8/Windows 8.1 informs you about this with an information in the message box that pops up when you type Windows Defender in the Search field from the Charms bar.
If you feel comfortable doing registry changes? But I don't see the need to as WSA is much better than Windows Defender can ever be!
Windows Defender Tweak if users want to run with WSA on Windows 8 or Windows 8.1
Windows 8.1 detects other AVs in the Action Center and blocks Defender from becoming active.
You can create a value of type DWORD named HideActionCenter (under HKLMSoftwareWRData on 32bit or for 64bit HKLMSoftwareWow6432NodeWRData) set to '1' and reboot and it will prevent Webroot from adding into the Action Center to allow Defender to stay active.
And the answer to whether Webroot can run along side Windows Defender is yes if you want it to.
Hope this helps and if not please get back to us.
Kind Regards,
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