windows 8 and windows defender

antijoke · 9 Mar 2013 at 20:09

Has anyone else encountered an issue with the above combination?

In the GUI it shows as running but when I update or run a scan it turns off the service and says I'm at risk as I'm not protected.

I've ran a full malware bytes scan and my system was clean.

It's most odd.

Mr-White · 9 Mar 2013 at 20:39

Could it be conflicting with the other anti-virus/malware software that you've got installed ?

MW

antijoke · 9 Mar 2013 at 20:52

I've not got anything else installed.

It did it before I put MWB on. I only put that on to check for a virus that might be stopping it. it does it half way through a scan.

ShakenNstirred · 10 Mar 2013 at 01:48

not had that problem here so far

brucey034 · 10 Mar 2013 at 16:01

I was going to post a thread about this, mine has started to do the exact same thing, when I manually update windows defender 8 it turns itself off, and you then have to manually turn it back on, NOT GOOD.

This started 2 days ago, up until then all was ok.

barrie0 · 11 Mar 2013 at 16:29

Had the same problem as well. Just updated it and it's running fine now.

Ceryndrion · 11 Mar 2013 at 17:42

Had the same issue a couple of days ago, decided to switch to avast 8 instead, just to be safe.

brucey034 · 11 Mar 2013 at 19:25

Mine seems to have sorted itself out after the latest update, thank goodness.

antijoke · 12 Mar 2013 at 20:57

That's interesting to know that others have had the same issue. I will update and hope that solves it for me too.