Windows Defender...Problematic.

[Woody01]

Microsoft's replacement for Microsoft Antispyware is not without its problems. I have been receiving error messages after it does its daily scan. Twice I have uninstalled it (with difficulty) and reinstalled. Still getting error messages. It is more troublesome than its predecessor. I am going to stay away from it until Microsoft irons out the bugs.
Anyone else having problems?

[Potato Salad]

Hmm. It hasn't given me any problems but its pretty new so im not suprised there a few bugs and kinks in it. For anyone who wants to try it you can find it here (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=435bfce7-da2b-4a6a-afa4-f7f14e605a0d&DisplayLang=en) You will need a Valid copy of window$

[slgrieb]

Woody, it works fine for me. I have gripes about the interface, but none about functionallity. What error messages are you getting?

[Woody01]

I see so many error messages during the week at work, I don't remember exactly. It is something like "Windows Defender has encountered a problem. Please reboot or reinstall the program."
It happened within a couple of days of installing it. It was obviously screwed up because I couldn't uninstall it by using "Add-Remove."

[confus-ed]

Is there anything in event viewer about it, or anything 'abnormal' relating to other things ? - I've had errors with Microsoft Antispyware but only when I've also found corrupted WMI repositories (its dependent on some of the counters used by that)

[Woody01]

Could be the reason. I'll check it out.

[Woody01]

Confus-ed.

I checked the Event logs for Windows Defender. Found two types of error messages. The first said "Windows Defender Service terminated w/ the following error. The system cannot find the file specified (netevent.dll)." The other more frequent error/warning messages said: "The description for Event ID (xx) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer."