Endpoint Protection

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kalamarca's picture

Can someone tell me how to make the regsitry change in Vista to allow me to disable antivirus and antispyware protection? That option is currently grayed out.

jeffwichman's picture

Hi Kalamarca. This can be

Hi Kalamarca.

This can be done in the SEPM console or if the administrators allow it users can disable themselves.

kalamarca's picture

I don't want to do it in the

I don't want to do it in the SEPM console. I need to make the registry change.

snekul's picture

Are you trying to work around

Are you trying to work around restrictions in your environment?  Even if you manage to work around it, SEP will check in again with the SEPM server and reapply the setting again.

If you are an administrator on the box, there are certainly many ways to disable anything, since you have full control of the computer.

Eric C. Lukens
IT Security Policy and Risk Assessment Analyst
University of Northern Iowa

Paul Mapacpac's picture

Re

you need administrator rights to be able to change this option.

Vikram Kumar-SAV to SEP's picture

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\S

Solution

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\AV\Storages\Filesystem\RealTimeScan

OnOff : 1- means enabled 0 - means disabled

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