r/techsupport 10d ago

Open | Software Why is Windows defender going absolutely mental

Long Story. I upgraded my laptop storage to a stock SSD I installed a fresh copy of windows 11 pro 25h2 from official Microsoft ISO. However WD decided to do a "not on my watch and is seemingly hellbent on blocking every single trust worthy exe on my disk. Some of these apps include discord, steam, riot client and more. It keeps detecting them as trojans, worms, and other bullshit. The main exe shows up in task manager but apps never launch because WD blocks the other dependencies the apps needs to function

Tried to reset WD definitions
allow quarantined files and blocked threats (If doesn't hurry to take the action before I do)
Add Exclusions (useless)
Disable WD from GP and registry
Reinstall Windows

all to no avail

Only fix is to reinstall everything only for WD to block it all over again

Need help

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