Windows Defender scheduled scan not working.

Hi Alicia J
This seems to be a on going problem for some reason with WD.
You can check through this thread to see if something there it might help.
To my knowledge it was never resolved.

Windows Defender Question

Geri

If this is on a Windows 2000 OS, this is a known issue with creating the Scheduled Task that actually executes the scan. Microsoft is currently working on a fix for this issue. Haven't seen or heard of this in any other OS.

I went to read about issue in links provided. Thanks. Doesn't seem to be a solution for this. If I decided to try the updating definitions manually, can someone give me the link so I can download definitions manually. Maybe updating them thru WU is mucking something up.

Originally Posted by Alicia J

I went to read about issue in links provided. Thanks. Doesn't seem to be a solution for this. If I decided to try the updating definitions manually, can someone give me the link so I can download definitions manually. Maybe updating them thru WU is mucking something up.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918355

In Defender, click on the little arrow to the right of the question mark and then click "About Windows Defender". You will see a link on the page that allows you to manually update the definitions database.

You might want to try uninstalling Defender, rebooting and reinstalling Defender as well, especially if you are running anything besides Windows 2000.

Just keep in mind that this is still in beta form and is buggy.

I'm having a moment. Yes I have used the manual check for update.

My WD will update definitions okay, it just won't do a scheduled scan.

I might uninstall and reinstall. Where are the definitions located on C drive? I'd like to make sure they're gone when I uninstall, before I reinstall.

Its in C:\Program Files\Windows Defender and should be under the Definition Update Descriptions.

This is what I have in my C:\program folder\windows defender.

Would that be AS_sigs.MSI?

Originally Posted by Alicia J

This is what I have in my C:\program folder\windows defender. Would that be AS_sigs.MSI?

That's the Defender installer package. If that's all you have in that folder then it should be good to go. If you have issues then delete that as well.

I have lots od dll files and a couple of exe files.

I've decided to just manual scans rather then deal with the schedule bug.

Originally Posted by Geri

Hi Alicia J This seems to be a on going problem for some reason with WD. You can check through this thread to see if something there it might help. To my knowledge it was never resolved. Windows Defender Question Geri

No, its never been fixed, I did however locate the "hot fix". After a little more research I decided against using it. I don't remember why. If your interested, I'll try to find the link again and post it.

I am still trying to figure out how to make the work around work.
Ya, I'm stll here. I manually Quick Scan with Defender everyother day and do a full scan every Saturday. I still like Defender.

I also thought this was a problem exclusive to XP Pro

There is a "hot fix" available from Microsoft Support if you have a retail version of Windows XP

I have a Home edition XP SP2

Thanks, but I think I'll just do the manual scan too.

Originally Posted by Alicia J

I have a Home edition XP SP2

I will alert this to the beta team, I haven't seen any discussion about this in the beta forums I frequent to. They mentioned Win2000 but not XP.

Thanks for passing it on to the beta team Skipslot.

Originally Posted by Alicia J

Thanks for passing it on to the beta team Skipslot.

I've got their attention currently, they are checking into it and will get back with me tomorrow. Although you might not like their answer, but at least they will know about it now.