INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Microsoft has announced that a new Microsoft Defender antivirus feature called Tamper Protection is now generally available.The new feature
works by preventing malware and other third-party apps from disabling Microsoft Defender (formerly Windows Defender) features without a
user's knowledge.According to a blog post from Microsoft, Tamper Protection will prevent malicious apps from disabling virus and threat
protection, disabling real-time protection, turning off behavior monitoring, disabling Defender's antivirus components including
IOfficeAntivirus, disabling cloud-delivered protection and removing security intelligence updates.The software giant says that Tamper
methods such as configuring settings in Registry Editor on a Windows device, changing settings through PowerShell CMDlets, and editing or
removing security settings through group policies.The free version of Microsoft Defender that ships with Windows 10 will be getting the new
Tamper Protection feature and it will also be rolling out to the commercial version of the software, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat
Protection (ATP).Microsoft first began work on Tamper Protection in December 2018 when the feature was made available to Windows Insiders
In March of this year, the company rolled out Tamper Protection for even more tests on Microsoft Defender ATP before its release
today.Beginning today, the feature is now available for all Microsoft Defender users and it will be enabled by default for all users in the
coming weeks as part of a multi-stage rollout.However, if you don't want to wait, you can now enable Tamper Protection manually by turning
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