Title says it all really. For the last few days I'm being offered updates for Defender which I don't have. I believe Defender started with W8. I let it go ahead the first time thinking it would 'realize' Defender wasn't installed on W7 but it appears to have installed the update anyway !
I get Defender updates on W10 but that's fine.
It will not hurt if you accepted the update. It will not cause any problems and take very little valuable space.You do have Windows Defender, it may be turned off however. Go to search by the start button and type Defender.
Nope - Typing Defender finds nothing. I don't even have MSE - uninstalled it when I got Avast.
Got offered another Defender update tonight - think I'll just ignore them. Went through previous update list and there's no Defender updates mentioned until a few days ago.
Thanks, Rich.
If you set your update to notify. When you see the defender updates, left click and then ignore.
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