I have Avast anti-virus. I has always worked with Windows Defender firewall.
Suddenly, Defender has started giving me the error 800106ba, and the
antivirus stopped working (without giving any errors). I tried reinstalling
it, and also installing other anti-virus (also not free), but the process
always stopped in the middle. I don't understand why it stopped working when
before I never had problems with it. I followed your suggestions, but it
doesn't let me complete the procedure.
"Jacee" wrote:
Quote:
>
> You may be getting the error if you don't have 'automatic updates'
> turned on, or your firewall isn't configured to correctly for your
> security applications.
>
> I am on dial-up, so I've turned automatic updates off. Since I've done
> that, I've also had to disable Windows Defender.
>
> These are free anti-spyware programs that work with Vista (they need to
> be manually updated)
>
> Spybot search and destroy
> 'The home of Spybot-S&D!' (http://www.safer-networking.org/)
>
> SpywareBlaster and SpywareGuard:
> 'Javacool Software - Products'
> (http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/products.html)
> Spyware Guard is a real-time malware scanner
>
> SpywareBlaster tutorial:
> 'Using SpywareBlaster to protect your computer from Spyware, Hijackers,
> and Malware' (http://tinyurl.com/7mqet)
> SpywareGuard tutorial:
> 'Using SpywareGuard to protect your computer from Spyware & Hijackers'
> (http://tinyurl.com/27uh5c)
>
>
> --
> Jacee
>
> *MS-MVP Windows-Security 2006 & 2007*
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