Strange behavior of Antimalware Service Executable when HWiNFO64 is running

[Yaruze]

Around the beginning of November, the Antimalware Service Executable system process (MsMpEng.exe) started to load the CPU in constant spikes (about 5% to 15%) if HWiNFO64 is running at the same time. If I close HWiNFO64 or disable real-time protection in Microsoft Defender, the MsMpEng.exe process completely stops behaving as I described above. If Resource Monitor is to be believed, no files are scanned by MsMpEng at this moment, just CPU load spikes when HWiNFO64 is running.

I have already tried adding the folder, executable file and process to Microsoft Defender exceptions, but it doesn't help.

I have been using Windows 11 along with Microsoft Defender and HWiNFO64 for several years now, never had this problem before.

Windows 11 Pro 23H2 22631.2715

Antimalware Client Version: 4.18.23100.2009
Engine Version: 1.1.23100.2009
Antivirus Version: 1.401.1671.0
Antispyware Version: 1.401.1671.0

HWiNFO64 7.66

 

[Martin]

This is most likely because Windows Defender in some cases overrides certain performance counters for his own use. It has been discussed here for example:

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