In terms of Avira and MSE, you're quite right in that you get what you pay for.
However, as the problem appears to be related to Windows Defender, I suggested trying MSE, as it will automatically disable Windows Defender.
As ever, it's up to the OP as to which possible solution is chosen.
Avira is also suporsed to disable Defender - if it doesn't do so automatically, it's easy enough to disable it in the Services control panel, even if the option is not available in the ordinary Control panel item.
Click on Start, and type
services.msc
into the Search box -hit the Enter key.
Look for the Windows Defender entry, and double-click on it, then use the options there to set it to Manual, or Disabled. (MSE sets the service to Manual - but that may be because it uses some of the functionality)
Thanks Noel, I'd prefer the Disable option be chosen. Then after stopping the service, reboot and see if that helps.
It makes sense to try that.
Hey!
Installed MSE, and now everything is running perfectly. I had actually tried to find a way inside Windows Defender to stop it from blocking certain programs, but couldn't locate it.
The MSE/Disable thing worked wonders.
And the tags on the KB915597 that are the two possible causes are:
1.115.2100.0
or
1.115.2351.0
Thanks alot for the help guys, you are the heroes of the internet.
I'll mark this as solved, but if anyone can come up with a proper rundown of the problem in Windows Defender, I'd love to see it and it could help other people who have the same problem.
Thanks again!
GREAT... but what are your plans for your other a/v software... if you uninstall it be sure to use the mfgr's uninstaller rand not the windows control panel uninstaller. unless it's too late
Mike
Mike
Chances are, that if you're on a slow or unstable connection, the next release of the update is out before you've actually downloaded the last - All Defender updates are released under the same KB number, with different versioning.
If you're bow running with MSE installed, please reset Defender to Manual, rather than Disabled. I believe that this is necessary, as MSE uses some of the other services that it activates and enables.
It's more loikely that your programs were being disabled by Avira's firewall (assuming you had the suite installed, rather than just the AV) than MSE. Did you look there?
The advised "disable" was when I was explaining how to disable Defender without risk of accidently reenabling it in the future. But with the change in direction I agree that the "Manual" setting is necessary.
Mike
Nope, I use Avast and I had it long before the problem appeared.
It was the Windows Defender, I'm positive.
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