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Kaspersky is withdrawing its European antitrust complaint against Microsoft today.

The software giant has agreed to make changes to the upcoming Windows 10 Fall Creators Update that have appeased Kaspersky and help its anti-virus software provide notifications and alerts to renew virus definitions.

Kaspersky Lab founder Eugene Kaspersky has accused Microsoft of using “underhanded tactics” to remove its product and enable the built-in Windows Defender program as the prime anti-malware product on Windows 10 PCs.

“Instead of providing an initial toast notification that users could ignore, the new notification will persist on the screen until the user either elects to renew the existing solution or chooses to rely on Windows Defender or another solution provider,” says Rob Lefferts, Microsoft’s director of program management for Windows enterprise and security.

“Months before a semi-annual update is delivered to customers, interested parties can get easy access to fully running and deployable versions of the release, stay current with updates as the release progresses and becomes feature complete, and provide timely feedback on issues and bugs.” He also added that the only time Windows Defender will run scans without explicit customer action is when the chosen third-party antivirus has expired.

“Once a customer has installed an active and up to date antivirus program, it will run without notifications or interference from Windows.

Lefferts said that when the Windows 10 Creators Update was released on April 11, “nearly all” third-party antivirus apps were compatible.

Also, 95 percent of Windows 10 PCs had an antivirus app installed that was already compatible with this update by then.