B
Bert Hyman
XP Pro SP3
Defender 1.1.1593.0
On reboot, the Defender icon is not in the taskbar, but the app is
apparently running, with MSACui and MsMpEng active.
More important, I did not get an expected popup warning me when an app I
regularly run made a change to the ....\RunOnce registry key.
When I "ran" Defender from the Start menu, the registry change warning was
in the list of problems to be resolved.
Oddly, when I did a "Switch user" to my wife's login, the Defender icon was
in her taskbar, but when I logged her off and switched back to me, the icon
was still missing.
The startup registry key for Defender is
"C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe" -hide
which I gather is what it's supposed to be.
This behavior is very consistent with Defender and I don't think it can be
explained away by any general "quirky" behavior of the taskbar.
Defender 1.1.1593.0
On reboot, the Defender icon is not in the taskbar, but the app is
apparently running, with MSACui and MsMpEng active.
More important, I did not get an expected popup warning me when an app I
regularly run made a change to the ....\RunOnce registry key.
When I "ran" Defender from the Start menu, the registry change warning was
in the list of problems to be resolved.
Oddly, when I did a "Switch user" to my wife's login, the Defender icon was
in her taskbar, but when I logged her off and switched back to me, the icon
was still missing.
The startup registry key for Defender is
"C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe" -hide
which I gather is what it's supposed to be.
This behavior is very consistent with Defender and I don't think it can be
explained away by any general "quirky" behavior of the taskbar.