windows defender/can't find

[Guest]

I hope someone can help.I'm not a computer genius at all but i thought i had
defender.I do have wloc on my windows xp home edition,laptop.Anyway yesterday
i think i got a bug that is slowing my computer down a lot so i went to go
to windows defender to run a scan as i did in wloc(which found nothing)and i
could not find defender.Now i've had some wloc problems a lot in 6 past
months and tech support at microsoft has uninstalled and re-installed wloc 5
or 6 times plus done other things in my registry to help fix.I tried to
re-download defender from windows site and it says i have to uninstall wloc
from my system!! I'm lost,1st i thought i had it,and 2nd why would microsoft
want me to delete wloc for another one of there programs? Can anyone give me
any suggestions?

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

Microsoft has not communicated well in this case. Windows Live OneCare
incorporates the functionality of Windows Defender. So--you don't need to
do a separate scan with Windows Defender, and, in fact, it isn't available
with recent OneCare versions.

So--don't worry about this--continue to use OneCare, which provides
antivirus protection as well as antispyware protection--it will find
anything that Windows Defender would.

 

[Guest]

The same thing happened to me, Lost Defender. My last def update for Defender
was on 6-11-07 and somewhere after that the program disappeared. I too
subscribe to WLOC and am using XP on this computer. Bill Sanderson is right
that Microsoft has done a lousy communication job. They forgot to tell me
that they were going to delete Windows Defender from my computer.