Re: Defender gone from Vista

MSE will remove / disable defender

"Michael Ober" <obermd.@.alum.mit.edu.nospam> wrote in message
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Actually the two work together.

Mike.

"DL" <notvalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Defender has been replaced by MS Security Essentials

"Tony Linguini" <testertony@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you, tried that, download said " incorrect operating system" or
some such which loosely translated meant that Defender is built into
Vista.
Tony

"KristleBawl" <KristleBawl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Tony Linguini expressed an opinion:
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

The first step is to try to reinstall Defender.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx

These programs remove the rogues for you, and they are easy to update,
just like an anti virus program. I have the free versions installed and
use them regularly.

Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoft.com/?domain=lavasoftusa.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

Malwarebytes
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

SuperAntiSpyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispyware.html

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