Antimalware service executable eats memory

Anonymous
2025-02-04T08:12:19+00:00

title. it's always taking 200-300 mb of memory.

I tried:

disable windows security, got hit with this setting is managed by your (non existent) administrator

end task, got access is denies

command prompt things, did nothing

edit group policy, did nothing

enable disableantispyware in regedit, got hit with access is denied

tried to give myself permission to enable disableantispyware, access is denied

in case I missed any, I basically tried everything you can find online. no matter what I do, either nothing happens, access is denied or this setting is managed by your administrator

I'm about to flip this is my computer, I should get to choose what to do. I am the administrator and only user

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  1. Ramesh Srinivasan 87,865 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2025-02-06T06:30:52+00:00

    Sorry to hear that. We followed the manual offboarding process, for which the first step was to turn off the "sense" service, which we did via WinRE.

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endp...

    If you can re-enter WinRE, please run these commands and re-enable Sense (ATP):

    reg load HKLM\SY2  C:\Windows\System32\Config\SYSTEM

reg add "HKLM\SY2\CurrentControlSet\Services\Sense" /v "Start" /d "3" /t REG_DWORD /f

reg unload HKLM\SY2

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  2. Ramesh Srinivasan 87,865 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2025-02-06T06:35:24+00:00

    Also, we've earlier created a Restore Point (using the fixlist.). You can access System Restore via Troubleshoot → Advanced Options.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-06T06:39:05+00:00

    nevermind I fixed it by using startup repair, but the security settings are STILL managed by your administrator and I just got several 'this app failed to open' notifs (idk what app it's talking about). at least things seem to be functioning fine for now but problem still isn't solved

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  4. Ramesh Srinivasan 87,865 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2025-02-06T06:41:31+00:00

    Can you please check the status of the "sense" service? You can do so by running 

    sc.exe query sense & sc.exe qc sense

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-02-06T07:02:07+00:00

    if you mean directly with command prompt and nothing else fancy

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