How to enable/disable the windows defender in C++

Question

I have turned off real-time protection of windows defender and turned it on.
And I checked the status value with "Get-MpPreference -verbose" with powershell.
It was confirmed that the value of "DisableRealtimeMoniotring" was changed to True/False.
I tried "Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMoniotring $false/$true"
In this case, the state value has not changed.

I want to know the activation status value of windows defender.
I want to enable/disable windows defender.
How to do it in c++/powershell or etc?
The best is C++.

Answer 1

Hi @shines7 ,

I suggest you to read the document of WDEnable and WDStatus which are able to enable/disable Windows Defender and view the status of Windows Defender.

Note:

WDEnable is no longer available for use as of Windows 10, version 1607.

Beginning in Windows 10, version 1607 and Windows Server 2016, the WDEnable function always returns E_NOTIMPL.

Best regards,

Elya

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Answer 2

Manage and Disable Windows Defender Using PowerShell