Windows Defender and forensic triage tools often find themselves at odds. While endpoint protection is designed to lock down a system against unauthorized access, forensic utilities must access everything, including locked system files, to secure evidence. This conflict creates immediate operational risks during live analysis. Modern antivirus engines with aggressive heuristics may flag legitimate forensic binaries as malware, terminating the acquisition process or quarantining the tool itself. Beyond simple blocking, active background scanning introduces significant I/O latency and threatens the integrity of the evidence; the AV might delete or modify a suspicious file, such as a malware payload, moments before it can be preserved.