For about a week and a half the security center has been placing an alert
icon in my task bar telling me Defender is not turned on. It is on.When I
open the program it tells me it's running normally. I am running Vista on a
Toshiba Satellite A105, McAfee for virus, and Crap Cleaner on demand. I am
still learning the OS. My last one was Millenium. I have only had this
computer for 5 or 6 months. This is driving me a little nuts.

Hello seeker05,

I'm not sure about this--but it looks promising--

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b/935511/en-us


Good luck
--
PS
Are you running Windows Live OneCare?
Firewall ?


FATHER
Nearly every man is a firm believer in heredity until his son makes a fool
of himself.


"seeker05" wrote:

> For about a week and a half the security center has been placing an alert
> icon in my task bar telling me Defender is not turned on. It is on.When I
> open the program it tells me it's running normally. I am running Vista on a
> Toshiba Satellite A105, McAfee for virus, and Crap Cleaner on demand. I am
> still learning the OS. My last one was Millenium. I have only had this
> computer for 5 or 6 months. This is driving me a little nuts.

Seeker;
If your not running OneCare, maybe the easiest thing to try as a solution
would be to take a look here for information about a potential WMI
repository inconsistency:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...9-befb3eb58150

On Vista this is a relatively easy fix if in fact your WMI database is
broken, so at least give the verifyrepository command a shot.

Another caution, although having no bearing on your current problem, is to
make sure you don't use CCleaner to clean Applications > Utilities >
Windows Defender (uncheck it) because doing so will cause Defender to loose
track of it's scan history, and report that you haven't scanned your system
recently.

--

Regards, Dave


seeker05 wrote:
> For about a week and a half the security center has been placing an alert
> icon in my task bar telling me Defender is not turned on. It is on.When I
> open the program it tells me it's running normally. I am running Vista on
> a
> Toshiba Satellite A105, McAfee for virus, and Crap Cleaner on demand. I
> am
> still learning the OS. My last one was Millenium. I have only had this
> computer for 5 or 6 months. This is driving me a little nuts.