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.
