Does anyone know how I can permanently disable this. I can't stand how it deletes files that it thinks are "bad" when they aren't. I just built a new computer and can only disable it through the Settings panel, but when I reboot it automatically re-enables itself. I was able to permanently disable this on my old machine through group policy editor I believe, but looks like in the new 2004 update they made things a bit more difficult.

Rob, that's how I've been doing it. But that way only temporarily disables the real-time protection. Would using the Exclusions method be a permanent way to resolve the issue? Can I set an entire drive to the exclude list?

I was attempting to download Lorby-Si's Add-on manager but it kept deleting it because it said it wasn't safe.