MSE keeps telling me I haven't scanned in a while

Hi Derek,

There was a thread about this not too long ago, but I can't quite find it now. It went something along the lines of the OP used CCleaner to remove some registry entries that let MSE know when the last scan was done....or something along those lines. Could that be soemthing you had done recently?

Since its a reinstallation, I imagine those registry entries have been re-created so you wont see that issue again.

I'll keep hunting for the thread, and post a reference here if I find it.

Regards,
Golden

Derek - just found this and some commentry at MS site:

CCleaner v3.08.1475 and Microsoft Security Essentials - Piriform Community Forums

"CCleaner v3.08.1475 introduced the MS Antimalware & Windows Defender cleaning options, which are set to true by default.
This is causing MSE logs to reflect that the computer hasn't been scanned.
Cleaning the MSSE logs doesn't have an effect on the program's performance, it just makes the program think it hasnt scanned before"

Seems to be a CCleaner issue. Are you using CCleaner recently?

Sweet

All good.

Tried to rep you, Golden, but it seems to be too soon since the last one. Consider this a virtual rep.

Hey no worries Prof

derekimo said:

Good call, I use CCleaner so that's a possibility.

I'll just do a reinstall again and lighten up on the reg clean part of it.

Thanks Golden.

Yup Derek I use CCleaner too and do not have it do any cleaning of security logs nor registry items of them.