Windows Live Safety Center

[Guest]

I tried to use the Safety Center to do a full service scan on my computer,
however, the software download to run the scan stops at 12% and the window
closes and I receive a message Done. I have shut down and rebooted my
computer and this did not correct the issue.

 

[Guest]

I tried to use the Safety Center to do a full service scan on my computer,
however, the software download to run the scan stops at 12% and the window
closes and I receive a message Done. I have shut down and rebooted my
computer and this did not correct the issue.

 

[S.Sengupta]

Run the Disk Cleanup utility and then retry.

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

 

[RHinNC]

I am having the same issue. Running the Disk Cleanup Utility does not help
either.

XP Pro SP2

Run the Disk Cleanup utility and then retry.

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

I tried to use the Safety Center to do a full service scan on my
computer, however, the software download to run the scan stops at 12% and
the window closes and I receive a message Done. I have shut down and
rebooted my computer and this did not correct the issue.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Stephenrh" <[email protected]>

| I tried to use the Safety Center to do a full service scan on my computer,
| however, the software download to run the scan stops at 12% and the window
| closes and I receive a message Done. I have shut down and rebooted my
| computer and this did not correct the issue.

Don't use it. It is junk anyway and falls way below the standards of the av industry.



Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file. http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm


* * * Please report back your results * * *

 

[NoStop]

From: "Stephenrh" <[email protected]>

| I tried to use the Safety Center to do a full service scan on my
| computer, however, the software download to run the scan stops at 12%
| and the window closes and I receive a message Done. I have shut down and
| rebooted my computer and this did not correct the issue.

Don't use it. It is junk anyway and falls way below the standards of the
av industry.

Funny how the world's largest software company with tens of thousands of
employees and billions of dollars in cash is so inept at producing decent
software.

IE is so far behind FireFox. Outlook Express is a joke. Notepad, well enuf
said on that p.o.s. Windows CD burning software is another sad joke.
Windows backup software is another piece of crap. Solitaire hasn't been
improved from the days of Win 3.1. Windows tcp/ip stack runs at half the
speed of Linux's tcp/ip. The list can go on and on. Maybe that's why
MickeyMouse is the richest software company in the world? It doesn't seem
to care about the quality of the products it puts out and relies solely on
its marketing machine/muscle to put this crap into the hands of the most
ignorant consumers it can.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "NoStop" <[email protected]>


| Funny how the world's largest software company with tens of thousands of
| employees and billions of dollars in cash is so inept at producing decent
| software.
|
| IE is so far behind FireFox. Outlook Express is a joke. Notepad, well enuf
| said on that p.o.s. Windows CD burning software is another sad joke.
| Windows backup software is another piece of crap. Solitaire hasn't been
| improved from the days of Win 3.1. Windows tcp/ip stack runs at half the
| speed of Linux's tcp/ip. The list can go on and on. Maybe that's why
| MickeyMouse is the richest software company in the world? It doesn't seem
| to care about the quality of the products it puts out and relies solely on
| its marketing machine/muscle to put this crap into the hands of the most
| ignorant consumers it can.
|

The corporate attitude has gone off course.

One of the reasons Microsoft is such a joke in the AV industry is that they have a spam
filter on the suspect infector submittal email address.

 

[Guest]

I had exactly the same problem. This worked to fix it.
1. Open control panel>then to add/remove programs.
2. Look for Windows Live Safety Scanner in the list, and if it is there,
remove it. Close window.
3. Click start. Click Run. Type in msconfig. Click the startup tab.
Uncheck any anti-spyware programs and maybe your anti-virus/internet security
program (if it stops an internet download to ask you to accept a setting) I
think Spybot- search and destroy- teatimer is the problem here.
4. Click apply and ok. Reboot.
5. Go to Live Safety Center and run the program. You must allow pop-ups.
6. After the program is installed and runs correctly, go back into
msconfig, click the startup tab, and click the enable all button, click apply
and ok and reboot. Hope this works for you.

 

[Guest]

Stephenrh,
I ran one of several adware programs I have. In this case Spybot
found the following program: Abwiz located in HKEY_Local_Machine\System\
ControlSet002\i386p
After deleting this program I was again able to run Windows Live Safety
Center.
Hope this helpd.

Bob So