Security Centre saying Defender is OFF and no antivirus

[Guest]

Hi all,

I'm suffering from what seems to be a common problem, but none of the
standard fixes are working. I'm working under Vista Ultimate (32bit).

Security Centre is incorrectly reporting the Defender is off, and no
antivirus is installed. In fact Defender is running, and Avast Antivirus is
installed.

Apparently this has something to do with the WMI repository, but I can't get
the repository to rebuild. I've tried shutting down the MSI service and
removing the repository folder, and restarting the service and rebooting does
not rebuild the folder.

Equally, on a command prompt (run as admin) the winmgmt /verifyrepository
and winmgmt /salvagerepository do not run even after lots of attempts. The
commands both return the folowing error: "WMI repository verification
failed. Error Code: 0*8004100A"

Does anyone have any ideas? The whole system has been fine until today when
this problem has suddenly arisen.

TIA

Martin

 

[Martin Harris]

Hi again.

Don't worry about this one - I've fixed it. It involved using WMIdiag (a
tool downloaded from Microsofts download centre) and clearing a number of
errors that it raised. Eventually the Repository reappeared and all has
been fine since.

Cheers

Martin