MSE gets turned off.
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This is nothing new but wanted to ask. Several times when I sign on the PC my MSE is turned off, the little icon is orange. I run a quick scan every night before shutting it down. The other night I ran a full scan and had to remove an item listed as severe. Removed it and shut down the PC. The next day after being on the PC for a few minutes I realized the icon was orange and had to run a quick scan to turn it on again. What's up with this?
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Re: MSE gets turned off.
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01/13/13 11:36 PM
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Terri, are you running Security Essentials on your new Windows 8 computer? If so, did you disable the Windows Defender first? If you tried to install Security Essentials, hopefully it prompted you that you can't run it unless you disable Defender first. You can't run both of them at the same time.
When you open it up, does it say it's been turned off?
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Re: MSE gets turned off.
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Hi Drac. The problem is on my old pc, the HP/os Vista.
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Re: MSE gets turned off.
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OK... Have you tried running Malwarebytes to see if it finds something? The only thing I'm aware of that would cause your MSE to be turned off is malware of some kind.
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Re: MSE gets turned off.
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I needed to update MSE, did so and it is a new version. I ran a full scan and it came up with a big -0-, no malware.
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This morning when I turned the PC on the MSE was disabled and the little icon was orange again. ( message said You haven't run a scan on you computer for a while) Even though the scan was fine apparently something is not right. Any thoughts on this?
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Re: MSE gets turned off.
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The box by MSE antimalware is not ticked.
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Hi Jenny. This all makes sense but because I do update and run the scan daily do you think that's the problem? I don't recall MSE ever asking for anything. This has been going on for months and I am going to guess that all is ok and that I have no problems. Thanks everyone. Terri Oh gee, I can't preview my posts again.
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Oh Jenny. Something always needs attention! lol I don't believe I have ever seen the little icon turn red, I'm only familiar with green and orange. I will check what my setting is for the MSE updates. I thought it was just set to update. Thanks ever so much for your help. Terri
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