Disable Windows Defender and most other 3rd party antiviruses

Posted by Roberto Franceschetti on Dec 07

Windows Defender and most other antivirus applications can be disabled by booting into safe mode and renaming their
application directories before their AV services are started in Windows. The renaming of the directories can be
performed by creating a Windows NT Service that is allowed to start in Safe Mode. While Windows stops most non-Windows,
non-critical services from starting when booting in Safe mode, I was able to make sure that my…