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Windows Defender

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Panic

Flightless Bird
In Control Panel I clicked on Windows Defender. It showed it was turned OFF
with a highlight to turn it ON. I click on that and it shows the blue
activity spiral icon but it just times out without installing. I have
Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit. My Windows 7 firewall, anti-virus, and
spyware are all active and work fine. What am I missing without Windows
Defender being ON?
 
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Alias

Flightless Bird
Panic wrote:
> In Control Panel I clicked on Windows Defender. It showed it was turned
> OFF with a highlight to turn it ON. I click on that and it shows the
> blue activity spiral icon but it just times out without installing. I
> have Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit. My Windows 7 firewall, anti-virus,
> and spyware are all active and work fine. What am I missing without
> Windows Defender being ON?

Have you got Windows Security Essentials installed? If so, that's why
Defender is off and it should stay off.

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Alias
 
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Orc

Flightless Bird
If believe that if you have another firewall installed (Norton, MacAfee)
those programs may turn off defender by default as it is surplus to
requirements

hope that helps

ORC

"Panic" <wrong@cox.net> wrote in message
news:i418nk$plt$1@speranza.aioe.org...
> In Control Panel I clicked on Windows Defender. It showed it was turned
> OFF with a highlight to turn it ON. I click on that and it shows the blue
> activity spiral icon but it just times out without installing. I have
> Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit. My Windows 7 firewall, anti-virus, and
> spyware are all active and work fine. What am I missing without Windows
> Defender being ON?
>
 
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Ken Blake

Flightless Bird
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:50:12 -0700, "Panic" <wrong@cox.net> wrote:

> In Control Panel I clicked on Windows Defender. It showed it was turned OFF
> with a highlight to turn it ON. I click on that and it shows the blue
> activity spiral icon but it just times out without installing. I have
> Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit. My Windows 7 firewall, anti-virus, and
> spyware are all active and work fine. What am I missing without Windows
> Defender being ON?



What anti-virus program do you have installed? Several of them
(Windows Security Essentials, for example) turn Defender off, because
its capabilities are built into them.
 
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