> There should be nothing that TaskMgr can't kill
Except Defender/Malware Protection...
Except Defender/Malware Protection...
I just checked and it can definitely kill malware protection so I don't know where you got that information but it's false.
And even without checking, being able to disable malware protection is a necessary feature in any OS, for SW development and debugging activities, so I would assume malware protection could be easily killed without a problem by the user with admin privileges.
> And even without checking, being able to disable malware protection is a necessary feature in any OS, for SW development and debugging activities, so I would assume malware protection could be easily killed without a problem by the user with admin privileges.
Lol, one would assume wouldn't they... in 11 even setting the GPs for all of the antimalware stuff to off won't stop the processes from running. You can still get it to a decently "get out of my way" level though.
I turn off the "realtime protection" in GPO/options... it's still there
I try killing "Antimalware Service Executable" (Msmpeng.exe), in taskmanager or try disable the service in the service control panel: Access Denied
I reboot into safe mode, disable the service, reboot and it's gone
.. but reboot again and it's back
I had to DELETE the service in safe mode and change the permissions on the executable so it couldn't be accessed/modified by anything
(borderline rootkit if you ask me)
The only Windows processes I see it can't kill are labeled System, System Interrupts, Secure System and Registry which I guess, are all kernel-space.
But yes I don't see why it couldn't (or why MS would add such a high-level protection to Cortana)
First, how do you know they're in front of a Windows machine and not casually commenting from their phone only to have life get in the way and make them set their phone down before they can Google it?
Second, I argue that FUD isn't spread if you're commenting and saying "I don't think it does this". Were they to say, "You cannot do this," then they would be spreading FUD. They didn't, they were corrected publicly, and anybody reading this thread can see as much. Maybe they'll even edit their post after they see this, who knows!
Edit: Even if I'd agree that they're spreading FUD, it's so minor and innocuous that it's not even worth getting angry at them.
Edit 2: If it's as easy for them to test if it's true or not, then anybody else with a Windows machine who sees that comment should also have just as easy a time testing it themselves. IMO that only serves to make this less FUD-dy than people are suggesting.
That's a lot of strong rhetoric to throw at someone's character over such an innocuous comment that hardly anybody is ever going to see, just because they are wrong about something (which, let's be honest, is relatively no big deal to be wrong about).
I really hope you have a good day.