security essentials

Windows Defender, Microsoft’s trusty default security friend, is like that basic vanilla ice cream at your office’s holiday party—ubiquitous, generally acceptable, but likely to leave the connoisseurs digging for something with more sprinkles. For IT professionals, small business owners, and...

Well, Windows 7 fans, here is something new I've never witness before. This came about when I couldn't get any WIN 7 Updates installed after I removed from Windows 10 back to Windows 7 Home. I remembered that I have burned three DVD of the Windows 7 Home OS, and had them other than the...

Getting an error No idea of what it means - windows update seems to be functioing as expected - showing No important updates, recent check at 10:07 today, and optionl update for Security Essentials published today: Event @ 02/06/2015 12:30:06 - System - Provider [ Name] Service Control Manager [...

I am about to replace AVG Internet Security 2014 (paid) with BitDefender Antivirus Plus 2015 (paid), based on the good reviews of the latter. But one of the reviews (I forget which) said that although BitDefender was better than AVG and Windows Security Essentials in general, the Windows...

We have a small "workgroup" network - 3 users, 3 computers running XP and MS Office 2003, 1 Buffalo TeraStation NAS, no servers On each PC, there is a U: drive mapped to the user's personal folder on NAS One of the users intermittently got an error when opening his Outlook "Unable to open your...

My friend has a fairly new stand-alone (not network or domain) Windows 7 Professional desktop PC with MS Security Essentials as protection. Using a Win7Pro User account which has administrative privileges, when attempting to access any USB flash drive (tried using a selection of flash drives)...

I tried a bunch of fixes that I found but many of them require me to delete folders or download some fix toll which i can't seem to do.I tried scanning my computer with windows defender (Somewhere it said to get Windows Security Essentials but I got a window saying: "You don't need WSE, Windows...

Hi My friend Paul has a message keep popping up in the lower right hand corner of his monitor saying that it is Windows Security Essentials and that it has found a virus that needs to be removed. The thing is it doesn't look quite right to me, the window is yellow and doesn't look like...

As most Win 8.1 users know, the older versions of Avast are not compatible with Win 8.1 This new version 2014.9.0.2007 is compatible. I just installed the FREE edition, and it works. It has email scanning option, I have it disabled. Link Removed I decided to install Avast, in light of the...

Hi HELP! I have been infected by "WEB CAKE 3.0". BACKGROUND I am running Windows7 x64 on 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of SSD. I am using Microsoft Security Essentials for virus protection. I am pretty much a newbie. THE STORY SO FAR: 1. I found it in Control Panel > Programs and Features, and because...

We've recently been having problems with redirects when clicking the links of search results in our browsers (IE and Firefox). We tried a few different virus scans and nothing was able to find it. However, we did realize that Microsoft Security Essentials would not run when we clicked the...

I've been trying to repair the computer at work, so any requests for system information and such will have to wait until I get back there, which is why I want to post this now. Basically, it's running a 32bit Windows 7. We were having a problem with browser redirects in IE and Firefox, so I...

Hello everyone....any ideas how to fix this popping up? From Desktop - Notepad [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21787 Windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version...

Hello Everyone and thanks in advance for your help! Blue screen when automatic updates installed last night. Now on reboot I get the following Notepad popping up (below). I also copied the blue screen crash info. Any input would be much appreciated. 1. The desktop.ini file does exist as...

I have Microsoft Security Essentials and I updated andscanned and have the same ver 1.1.9002.0 as my other computer that is protectedso how can I get my computer protected with Microsoft Security Essentials? Isthere a time limit? I just uninstalled and re-installed and that worked

I'm going to post this in efforts to help prevent individuals from getting a possible Virus. I've known this for a while now, and the fact is, Digital Signatures may not all be legit. Therefore, not all are to be trusted. It is possible to modify a file and append junk data to EOF of a file...

Describes how to troubleshoot error code 0x80070643 or error code 0x643 when updates are installed for the .NET Framework by using Windows Update or Microsoft Update or when you update Microsoft Security Essentials. Link Removed - Invalid URL

Hi I am having big issues with blue screens. The pc is pretty new, I build it myself, and I put windows 7 Pro. I am geting blue screens almost every day, I am getting crazy about this. I have installed windows debugger but it seems all crashes are comming from window 7 itself and I don't really...

Hello all This is my first post in here. Please bear over with my English – it is not my native language. My problem is on a Media Centre machine where I recently upgraded Motherboard and processor. I have the following setup on the machine: MB: Asus P8H77-MLE CPU: Intel i3 2120 2x2 GB...

I have had U-Verse (AT&T) for about one year now. Most of the time it has been trouble-free. However one problem I've was having is that, when the modem lost power for any length of time, when it came back I would get multiple AT&T connection errors when trying to surf. Over a period of a day...