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Re:Windows for Linux Nerds by nikbackm on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:23AM (#15247213)
Regarding the last point.

Windows Defender will normally be active by default on Windows 10 unless you go out of your way to turn it off.

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Re:Windows for Linux Nerds by hypervis0r on Thursday September 14, 2017 @01:31PM (#15250320)
It's not like editing a value in the registry is "going out of your way", it's almost standard Windows practice by now.
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Re:Windows for Linux Nerds by joombaga on Thursday September 14, 2017 @03:20PM (#15251588)
Literally two commands in an elevated command prompt

    sc config WinDefend start= disabled
    sc stop WinDefend
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