Windows Defender automatically keeps turning off...

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It keeps automatically turning off unexpectedly, I am using Windows Vista
Home Basic, I also have Windows Live Onecare, it keeps doing this for some
reason and when I try to do full scan in Defender, I get an error. The
problem just occured this morning...help
 
Cuzz said:
It keeps automatically turning off unexpectedly, I am using Windows Vista
Home Basic, I also have Windows Live Onecare, it keeps doing this for some
reason and when I try to do full scan in Defender, I get an error. The
problem just occured this morning...help
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Defender and Live OneCare are incompatible.
 
Cuzz said:
It keeps automatically turning off unexpectedly, I am using Windows
Vista
Home Basic, I also have Windows Live Onecare, it keeps doing this for
some
reason and when I try to do full scan in Defender, I get an error.
The
problem just occured this morning...help
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One Care takes over the job from Defender so Defender and also the
Windows Firewall are no longer used.

Tom
 
Cuzz said:
It keeps automatically turning off unexpectedly, I am using Windows Vista
Home Basic, I also have Windows Live Onecare, it keeps doing this for some
reason and when I try to do full scan in Defender, I get an error. The
problem just occured this morning...help
Click to expand...

From what I understand, malware can target Defender and disable it on
Vista.
 
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