Re: Defender gone from Vista

That worked fine. I was misinformed about the relationship between defender and MSE.
I actually run MSE on my Windows 7 machine.
Thanks for everyone's input.
Tony

"Patrick Phillips" <patrickp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:20091130202206.15e2021a@xxxxxxxxxx
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:37:42 -0800
"Tony Linguini" <testertony@xxxxxxxx> wrote:


My granddaughter's laptop got the eco (green) antivirus extortionware,
and I manually removed it. It somehow removed the core files from
Defender, and now it won't start or run. Suggestions? (besides a format
please) Tony



Now just install Microsoft Security Essentials its designed to disable
Windows Defender anyway and provides real time protection for anti-virus,
rootkits, trojans, spyware.

--
Patrick in IL.

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