I'm guessing that you are referring to AntiVirus program updates? I use Norton IS 2013 and I just opened the Interface and noticed that it had just updated 45 sec. previous to me opening the interface and I went to the CP and tried "Programs and Features" and it didn't crash so I'm going to say that it crashes when it feels like. Let's say I open it tomorrow when I first start using it and it will almost surely crash. Good thing I don't use P&F a lot or I'd be going batty! This is why I'm trying to get to the bottom of this now. MSI is something to do with the installer, right? Is there a way to re-register the Windows 7 installer?Does this happen all the time? When I used Avast I occasionally noticed this in control panel after a definition update.
Joe
Already scanned with MBAM. Clean as a whistle, not to mention the 012/013 Versions of Norton are light on resources even though they do have a bit much overhead. I've used all the Security Suites, top ones anyway and they all have their plus and minus. Security Essentials is rated so far down on all the top security reviews, why would anyone entrust their OS to Microsoft? I ran Windows Live One Care a few years when it still cost money and I learned the hard way when I finally switched to a different security suite that Live One Care left a lot of poison on my system. Now it's free and you think it's worth checking out? I'm not mocking here. If you know something I don't about why I should us a security suite that's free than one from a reputable company and yes I'm aware that Norton has had tons of issues in the past, but their last couple of suites were top rated on all the lists that mattered. I was running KIS2012 and found too many warnings and pop-up warnings and it does slow you down a taste. I ran BitDefender IS 2012 and found that to be the easiest to use but it always seemed unfinished, like it was put out before it was ready and I found myself in their forums looking for temp workarounds. So you see I'm not new to security products. How would re-installing Norton replace the msi.dll with a new one?? I was going to try the sfc /scannow tomorrow if I still had the problem in the morrning. I ran a performance fix-it fro Microsoft that found a couple of minor problems, but I don't know the extent of this one so I'll wait and see what tomorrow morning brings because as we speak it seems to be working ok now, but the problem is sporadic to start with.Hi
If you have a system restore point from before the problem started try going back to that.
Run Malwarebytes and make sure this isn't a malware problem.
Try logging into safe mode and see if the problem still happens.
Personally I would dump Norton AV and use Microsoft Security Essentials.
Norton may be OK but I guarantee that your computer will run better without it.
It just has too much overhead.
It's hard to say which program the .msi file is associated with.
But re-installing Norton might replace it with a new copy.
You could also try running SFC /scannow from the run menu and see if Windows will replace it.
Mike