HELP! Defender keeps going to the internet..

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Kevin

We have an internet monitor/blocker to prevent unauthorized/excessive
internet usage.

Each time you try to go to an internet address, a login/password popup
jumps up to remind you.

Unfortunately, Defender does this at startup and I've got users being
driven buggy (which in turn drives me buggy) by the popups as soon as
they log in.

The kicker is that our Defender updates are handled by our WSUS so my
question(s) are:

What is it doing if it doesn't need to go to the internet for
updates?

and

How do I stop it?!?!?

Please help,

Thanks,

Kevin
 
It is probably sending spynet information outbound. If you want to stop
that, then you can "unjoin" by going to Tools -> Options and then selecting
Spynet. To unjoin, select "I don't want to join Microsoft SpyNet at this
time." Let me know if you still see outbound traffic.

--
-steve

Steve Dodson [MSFT]
Windows Defender Beta Lead
MCSE, CISSP
http://blogs.technet.com/stevedod
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I tried that already - I'm already set to "I don't want to join..."

Just re-booted, still getting the message(s) - it tries twice.

You didn't expect it to be easy, did you?

;-)

Thanks for the suggestion - got any more?

Steve Dodson said:
It is probably sending spynet information outbound. If you want to stop
that, then you can "unjoin" by going to Tools -> Options and then selecting
Spynet. To unjoin, select "I don't want to join Microsoft SpyNet at this
time." Let me know if you still see outbound traffic.

--
-steve

Steve Dodson [MSFT]
Windows Defender Beta Lead
MCSE, CISSP
http://blogs.technet.com/stevedod
--

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm

Note: For the benefit of the community-at-large, all responses to this
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Kevin said:
We have an internet monitor/blocker to prevent unauthorized/excessive
internet usage.

Each time you try to go to an internet address, a login/password popup
jumps up to remind you.

Unfortunately, Defender does this at startup and I've got users being
driven buggy (which in turn drives me buggy) by the popups as soon as
they log in.

The kicker is that our Defender updates are handled by our WSUS so my
question(s) are:

What is it doing if it doesn't need to go to the internet for
updates?

and

How do I stop it?!?!?

Please help,

Thanks,

Kevin
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