


Tip: you may disable other protective modules such as cloud-delivered protection, automatic sample submission or tamper protection here. You can turn off this setting for a short time before it turns back on automatically. Locates and stops malware from installing or running on your device. Windows Security has options to turn off certain security modules, including Real-Time Protection, in the Settings application. Enable or Disable Real-Time Protection in Windows 11 Reasons for wanting to do so include high resource use, Windows Defender Antivirus causing other issues on the system, no requirement for an antivirus solution, e.g., while using a virtual machine image of Windows 11, or simply because of wanting to decide what is running on the computer and what is not. Some may want to turn off Microsoft Defender Antivirus temporarily or permanently, even if no other solution is installed.

Most Windows 11 users may want to keep Microsoft Defender Antivirus enabled if no other security solution is installed. Most third-party antivirus solutions that support Windows 11 are recognized, but there may be the odd solution that is not. Previously, it was known as Windows Defender. It is turned on by default, unless another security solution is installed that is recognized by the operating system as such. Use the links in the table to get more details about specific policies.Microsoft Defender Antivirus is the default antivirus solution of Microsoft's Windows 11 operating system. These tables list all of the browser-related group policies available in this release of Microsoft Edge. This article applies to Microsoft Edge version 77 or later.
