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To confirm after install go to Fleet -> Agent policies See Elastic Defend policy Scroll down and ensure Malware is turned off -- need to test with a windows machine and ensure defender isn't turned off. |
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Ran cluster run on this PR. It Passed. PR is approved.
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Confirmed that this fix will stop defender from being disabled. Recommend that we merge with main. |
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🗣 Description
#626
This disables malware protection by default from Elastic Defend. Users can then decide to turn on malware protections as needed.
This also added a quick comment to documentation on Windows integration to only use Metrics if absolutely required. This requires manual intervention... user MUST click to disable.
💭 Motivation and context
Elastic Defend and conflict with Windows Defender. This should be off by default since Defender is pretty common on all Windows Endpoints. Users can decide to use if wanted.
📷 Screenshots (DELETE IF UNAPPLICABLE)
🧪 Testing
Performed install, and in fleet verified that Malware protections were turned off by default.
Must verify that defender doesn't get disabled on a Windows machine
✅ Pre-approval checklist
the title reflects this in a clear human readable format
✅ Pre-merge Checklist
✅ Post-merge Checklist