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01-28-2008
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| | defender disables itself i have vista home premium with all latest updates installed. after some time, defender disables itself (exclamation mark next to "defender castle icon' appears in task tray, saying defender is not running), after some waiting also the tray icon disappears. None of the users have administrator rights, but still it gets disabled. |
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02-21-2008
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| | RE: defender disables itself this problem remains... just updated spyware codex (needed manual start of Defender), one hour later it is suddenly disabled again. is there ANYONE who has an idea what causes this "Francis" wrote: Quote: > i have vista home premium with all latest updates installed. > > after some time, defender disables itself (exclamation mark next to > "defender castle icon' appears in task tray, saying defender is not running), > after some waiting also the tray icon disappears. > > None of the users have administrator rights, but still it gets disabled. |
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02-21-2008
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| Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: defender disables itself  Quote: Originally Posted by Francis  this problem remains... just updated spyware codex (needed manual start of Defender), one hour later it is suddenly disabled again. is there ANYONE who has an idea what causes this "Francis" wrote: Quote: > i have vista home premium with all latest updates installed. > > after some time, defender disables itself (exclamation mark next to > "defender castle icon' appears in task tray, saying defender is not running), > after some waiting also the tray icon disappears. > > None of the users have administrator rights, but still it gets disabled. See if this will get Windows Defender to stay running for you. Unable to enable Windows Defender application in Windows Vista Shawn |
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02-22-2008
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| | Re: defender disables itself are you running windows live onecare? if so, it disables Windows Defender when it does a scan because part of WD is built into it robin "Francis" <Francis@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:7DE4E1A4-1D13-4E0A-82D0-C204C17196DF@xxxxxx Quote: > this problem remains... just updated spyware codex (needed manual start of > Defender), one hour later it is suddenly disabled again. > > is there ANYONE who has an idea what causes this > > "Francis" wrote: > Quote: >> i have vista home premium with all latest updates installed. >> >> after some time, defender disables itself (exclamation mark next to >> "defender castle icon' appears in task tray, saying defender is not >> running), >> after some waiting also the tray icon disappears. >> >> None of the users have administrator rights, but still it gets disabled. |
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