Windows Defender automatically keeps turning off...

[Guest Cuzz]

It keeps automatically turning off unexpectedly, I am using Windows Vista

Home Basic, I also have Windows Live Onecare, it keeps doing this for some

reason and when I try to do full scan in Defender, I get an error. The

problem just occured this morning...help

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Cuzz

[Guest Nate Grossman]

Cuzz <lucaswiggins@hotmail.com> wrote:

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>It keeps automatically turning off unexpectedly, I am using Windows Vista

>Home Basic, I also have Windows Live Onecare, it keeps doing this for some

>reason and when I try to do full scan in Defender, I get an error. The

>problem just occured this morning...help</span>

 

Defender and Live OneCare are incompatible.

[Guest Tom Allen]

"Cuzz" <lucaswiggins@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:21A945FF-A82D-424E-B388-45B6E05A62F4@microsoft.com...<span style="color:blue">

> It keeps automatically turning off unexpectedly, I am using Windows

> Vista

> Home Basic, I also have Windows Live Onecare, it keeps doing this for

> some

> reason and when I try to do full scan in Defender, I get an error.

> The

> problem just occured this morning...help

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> Cuzz</span>

 

One Care takes over the job from Defender so Defender and also the

Windows Firewall are no longer used.

 

Tom

[Guest MBUnit]

Cuzz wrote:<span style="color:blue">

> It keeps automatically turning off unexpectedly, I am using Windows Vista

> Home Basic, I also have Windows Live Onecare, it keeps doing this for some

> reason and when I try to do full scan in Defender, I get an error. The

> problem just occured this morning...help</span>

 

From what I understand, malware can target Defender and disable it on

Vista.