Defender-no new defs

Useful discussion group - & my 1st post! Every time I boot up, Windows
security alert tells me Defender is out of date but when I try to update I
receive message that there are no new definitions available. OS is Vista HP
+SP1; also running AVG antivirus + Lavasoft ad-aware (both free versions). I
cannot d/load latest version of Defender from M/soft coz message tells me
this s/ware is already preinstalled, and I cannot disable or uninstall
Defender from my h/drive (what is the point of being obliged to keep
something which is not working properly so you can replace it with something
that is?!) Any advice much appreciated. Gazza.

How to troubleshoot definition update issues for Windows Defender
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918355/en-us

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows Vista Enthusiast

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"Gazza B" <Gazza > wrote in message news:B58A267A-EBFF-4C7E-97C3-...
Useful discussion group - & my 1st post! Every time I boot up, Windows
security alert tells me Defender is out of date but when I try to update I
receive message that there are no new definitions available. OS is Vista HP
+SP1; also running AVG antivirus + Lavasoft ad-aware (both free versions). I
cannot d/load latest version of Defender from M/soft coz message tells me
this s/ware is already preinstalled, and I cannot disable or uninstall
Defender from my h/drive (what is the point of being obliged to keep
something which is not working properly so you can replace it with something
that is?!) Any advice much appreciated. Gazza.

So simple! Thanks a lot.

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

> How to troubleshoot definition update issues for Windows Defender
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918355/en-us
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Desktop Experience -
> Windows Vista Enthusiast
>
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>
> "Gazza B" <Gazza > wrote in message news:B58A267A-EBFF-4C7E-97C3-...
> Useful discussion group - & my 1st post! Every time I boot up, Windows
> security alert tells me Defender is out of date but when I try to update I
> receive message that there are no new definitions available. OS is Vista HP
> +SP1; also running AVG antivirus + Lavasoft ad-aware (both free versions). I
> cannot d/load latest version of Defender from M/soft coz message tells me
> this s/ware is already preinstalled, and I cannot disable or uninstall
> Defender from my h/drive (what is the point of being obliged to keep
> something which is not working properly so you can replace it with something
> that is?!) Any advice much appreciated. Gazza.
>

Hello Gazza,

It may well be worth your while to go to:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal

and download the 32-bit definitions for Windows Defender--in the right
column.

(unless you know that you are running a 64-bit version of Windows.)

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"Gazza B" wrote:

> Useful discussion group - & my 1st post! Every time I boot up, Windows
> security alert tells me Defender is out of date but when I try to update I
> receive message that there are no new definitions available. OS is Vista HP
> +SP1; also running AVG antivirus + Lavasoft ad-aware (both free versions). I
> cannot d/load latest version of Defender from M/soft coz message tells me
> this s/ware is already preinstalled, and I cannot disable or uninstall
> Defender from my h/drive (what is the point of being obliged to keep
> something which is not working properly so you can replace it with something
> that is?!) Any advice much appreciated. Gazza.