Windows Defender/AVG Conflict

[JohnBurns]

In the last few days Windows Defender on my 2 home pc's is being turned off
on boot and I have to manually turn it back on. I have found one forum which
indicates AVG 9.0 (which I have installed) is causing this. I have contacted
AVG, but don't have a response yet. I am posting this just to determine if
anyone else with Windows Defender and AVG installed is having this same
problem.

 

[JohnBurns]

Never mind - I found an AVG forum that indicates this was deliberate by AVG
since there is a conflict - and Microsoft approval was obtained. Just wish
they would tell us, the end users, when they do something like this so we
don't go around in circles trying to figure out what is happening. Maybe
this post will help someone else, i hope.

 

[Donald Anadell]

In the last few days Windows Defender on my 2 home pc's is being turned
off
on boot and I have to manually turn it back on. I have found one forum
which
indicates AVG 9.0 (which I have installed) is causing this. I have
contacted
AVG, but don't have a response yet. I am posting this just to determine
if
anyone else with Windows Defender and AVG installed is having this same
problem.

Hi John,

In my experiences with installing AVG 9.0 on 3 Windows XP SP3 machines,
Defender was turned off by the AVG install. After rebooting, the Defender
Icon in the System Tray showed an Exclamation mark in the Icon. Clicking on
the Icon produced a dialog box indicating that Defender was turned off and
offering to turn it back on.

Subquent re-boots did not turn off Defender as you've indicated. Turning it
back on after the initial install of AVG and reboot was all that was
required on the three machines I've installed it on.

Maybe something got hosed during your install of AVG 9.0. You might try
uninstalling||reinstalling AVG.

Good luck,

Donald Anadell\

 

[robinb]

yes I am finding the same thing happen
in vista only
I just upgraded my vista to windows 7 and it is not happening there
robin

 

[khmers#com]

When I first used the AVG it was the 8.0 version and was doing the samething
just after I bought it. Contacted them and had an upgrade downloaded do to it
being an older version, that was to have been the cause. However approx. a
week if that the problem happened again except this time it dropped me back
down to the 8.0 version and I had to start over again. I tried contacting
them about this problem but this time there was never no answer in return, So
I Just Dropped It All Together And Went On To Something Else.

 

[BobDeveen]

When I first used the AVG it was the 8.0 version and was doing the samething
just after I bought it. Contacted them and had an upgrade downloaded do to it
being an older version, that was to have been the cause. However approx. a
week if that the problem happened again except this time it dropped me back
down to the 8.0 version and I had to start over again. I tried contacting
them about this problem but this time there was never no answer in return, So
I Just Dropped It All Together And Went On To Something Else.

It's AVG9 who disables Defender at Boot Time. Suppose AVG thinks he is the
Boss...

 

[Bill Sanderson]

It's AVG9 who disables Defender at Boot Time. Suppose AVG thinks he is the
Boss...

Sometimes you need to choose one boss. If you go to a doctor, you try to
pick somebody you feel is competent and who you can trust, and then you
follow the advice they give.

In this case, it is indeed correct advice to have only one application doing
real-time scanning, and Microsoft really does give that advice to other
vendors, and provides a mechanism which allows them to disable Windows
Defender for that reason.

So--you've chosen AVG as your anti-malware vendor, and this is their advice.
As long as you are going with AVG for this important work, I'd go with their
advice.

 

[robinb]

I second it
robin

Sometimes you need to choose one boss. If you go to a doctor, you try to
pick somebody you feel is competent and who you can trust, and then you
follow the advice they give.

In this case, it is indeed correct advice to have only one application
doing real-time scanning, and Microsoft really does give that advice to
other vendors, and provides a mechanism which allows them to disable
Windows Defender for that reason.

So--you've chosen AVG as your anti-malware vendor, and this is their
advice. As long as you are going with AVG for this important work, I'd go
with their advice.

 

[Froment]

Don't worry. Sure Microsoft is planning an update to disable AVG.
The First Security War is just beginning...