I wonder how large Enterprise environments willĭeal with this as all of those that I ever worked for certainly used third-party AV solutions. Maybe CFA will end up on the scrap heap because of this. NOTE If you switch Real-time protection off, it will automatically.
It will be interesting to see how this develops. These are disabled automatically when a third-party antivirus or firewall product. I suspect I'm not alone in that sentiment. I realize WD has gotten better in recent years but I don't feel confident enough in it toĬount on it alone to protect my machines. Work-around possible and don't know if MS really intended to force everyone to uninstall all third-party antivirus programs and rely solely on Windows Defender. To reactivate real-time protection, from the main menu click Setup >. Apparently if WD isn't in RTP mode then CFA can't be enabled. If real-time protection is inadvertently disabled by a user, it must be reactivated. Running a third-party antivirus then Windows Defender can't run in Real Time Protection mode, it defers to AVG (in my case). I'm running AVG antivirus and it appears that if we're NOTE: McTriage might take a long time to complete because it performs many tasks. Lenny, I just updated one of my home laptops running Windows 10 Home to ver 1709 and when I went to enable Controlled Folder Access I also noted that it's grayed out in the off position. Double-click McTriage.exe to start the tool, and then click Run.
