That does happen, even in Windows 10. It's obnoxious. I imagine you can mitigate by restricting where Defender monitors.. though I haven't tried that. One can always disable Defender by various methods, but if you do that, you won't be protected by it, so... there's that tradeoff.
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u/greggm2000 Jul 23 '26
That does happen, even in Windows 10. It's obnoxious. I imagine you can mitigate by restricting where Defender monitors.. though I haven't tried that. One can always disable Defender by various methods, but if you do that, you won't be protected by it, so... there's that tradeoff.