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Hi. Welcome to Geekswipe Curiosity. You can disable this by creating a registry key. Open regedit and navigate to this: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinDefend. Create a new key with a name DisableRealtimeMonitoring and value as 1.

You also can do this directly from within PowerShell with the command: Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true