I recently had a Trojan and Symantec anti virus removed it. However when
I uninstalled Symantec (I wanted to place in another anti-virus) Windows
Security became unavailable. If I go to Control Panel > Security nothing
happens. When I try to access Windows Defender then I immediately get a
blue error screen. Now whenever I open up Internet Explorer sometimes
strange noises start to happen as if I'm watching a video. (goes away
when IE closes) making me think Symantec was not successful. Also I am
running Vista Home Premium.


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It sounds like Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)has been damaged
by the combination of malware and Symantec.
First, see if you can run this security software removal tool:
AppRemover
http://www.technibble.com/appremover...l-of-the-week/

If you can, then remove all vestiges of Symantec and any other installed
antivirus.

If not or if you could remove Symantec with the aforementioned tool,
open an Elevated Command Prompt ( Start orb > in the Start search field
type in cmd > *right* click cmd.exe and choose 'Run as administrator' >
if no password is used click the Continue button; if one is used enter
it and then click OK.

At the Elevated prompt, type in the below and then press Enter
(Note the space between the " t " and the slash /)

winmgmt /verifyrepository

If WMI reports that it's in an inconsistent state try running the below
command

winmgmt /salvagerepository

You may have to run it twice. Reboot afterwards and then run the
verifyrepository command again to see if WMI was salvaged.

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dsagent wrote:

> I recently had a Trojan and Symantec anti virus removed it. However when
> I uninstalled Symantec (I wanted to place in another anti-virus) Windows
> Security became unavailable. If I go to Control Panel > Security nothing
> happens. When I try to access Windows Defender then I immediately get a
> blue error screen. Now whenever I open up Internet Explorer sometimes
> strange noises start to happen as if I'm watching a video. (goes away
> when IE closes) making me think Symantec was not successful. Also I am
> running Vista Home Premium.
>
>