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AnuragSrivastava
Jun 02, 2021Iron Contributor
No active antivirus provider
Hello, I have uninstalled 3rd party AV on the endpoints in my organization and have enabled Windows Defender AV by pushing endpoint security (Antivirus) policy through Intune. Still I am gett...
- Jun 06, 2021Hi Ambarish,
Thank you for your reply. The issue was due to 'DisableAntiSpyware' registry key under HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender which was set to 1. Now we have the changed the value to 0 and we can see the Microsoft Defender as the active antivirus.
AnuragSrivastava
Jun 03, 2021Iron Contributor
Yes , I can see the endpoints on the Intune portal with policy status as successful.
ambarishrh
Jun 03, 2021Iron Contributor
AnuragSrivastava Could you please share a screenshot of the below registry entry?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender
- AnuragSrivastavaJun 06, 2021Iron ContributorHi Ambarish,
Thank you for your reply. The issue was due to 'DisableAntiSpyware' registry key under HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender which was set to 1. Now we have the changed the value to 0 and we can see the Microsoft Defender as the active antivirus.- Trideep_DuttaJun 08, 2022Copper Contributor
AnuragSrivastava Can you help me out too i am also facing the same issue .. It says no active antivirus provider
- AnuragSrivastavaJun 10, 2022Iron ContributorTrideep_Dutta
you can try this, it worked for me - The issue was due to 'DisableAntiSpyware' registry key under HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender which was set to 1. Now we have the changed the value to 0 and we can see the Microsoft Defender as the active antivirus.
- ambarishrhJun 06, 2021Iron ContributorGlad it worked for you! 🙂