Can one prevent Antimalware Executable to start hogging CPU for extended periods each time some network adapter gets active?

Question

Another article told me that the memory hogs is caused by Windows Defender scans. I followed the instructions that tell me to uncheck the boxes in Idle, Power, and Network for each of the 4 tasks that Defender has. The process is still in task manager, but I'm assuming it will always be there, at around 39.7 MB of memory. Will it still do write to disks and hog memory again?

Answer 1

problem solved, go into defender settings at the last option and uncheck "use this app"