For several days we’ve been nursing a list of woes with MSE, primarily a completely bogus “preliminary scan results show that malicious or potentially
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AskWoody LoungerApril 6, 2017 at 4:05 pm #106975I, too, have not had any problems with MSE. But I noticed that the build you cite as the replacement build is lower than mine. My MSE build number is 139.930.0. My downloads come to MSE and are installed, but I also get the same update in windows update. I have been hiding the windows update and letting the auto MSE update do it’s thing.
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AskWoody LoungerApril 6, 2017 at 7:06 pm #107003I had no problems, I’m a group A user so that left me wondering, does this only happen to some random users or did the users who suffered from this installed the new 664 snop patch? It was the only one I didnt install and the people complaining at ms forums are group a users who installed every patch
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AskWoody LoungerApril 6, 2017 at 11:04 pm #107032Woody this issue that I have had for almost a week now has not been “fixed” for me with this new version (1.239.956.0) of MSE that I installed after following your link. I am still receiving the “malicious or unwanted software” message at the bottom of my MSE scan box as soon as the scan hits the svchost item.
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ManagerApril 6, 2017 at 11:19 pm #107034I believe v.1.239.956.0 refers to the definition updates, not MSE itself. The current version of MSE is shown here, under “Details” (4.10.0209.0, 29/Nov/2016 today).
There should be a down arrow to the right of Help, select About Security Essentials (if the information I found is still current). That would be one point to eliminate, while you are figuring out this frustration.
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GuestApril 7, 2017 at 11:36 am #107089Have you clicked on ‘update definitions’ from the MSE GUI rather than having windows update send you the updates? If that works and MSE informs you that it has updated, you can then run a scan. If the scan comes back with the same malware message, it is more than likely that your MSE database is corrupted. If that is the case your only alternative reinstall the database. That is easily done by going to the following site …
https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/14210/security-essentials-download
click on the English version for either 32 or 64 (whatever your system is) and follow the instructions.
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AskWoody LoungerApril 7, 2017 at 12:12 pm #107106I have updated MSE both from the WU and from the MSE program itself and it makes no difference, I get the same message every time. I am not comfortable doing things on the computer because as I said I don’t know much about them and I am scared that I will do something wrong and really mess things up even worse. Would I not have to uninstall the program first and then reinstall it?
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GuestApril 17, 2017 at 7:17 pm #109163Do you by any chance have “System Restore” On?
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My wild idea is that it is ON and somehow flagging that svchost PID, because a restore point was made with some maleware way back in the past.
If you feel brave:
Make a restore point now.
Delete all but the last one shown by todays date.
Reboot
Run Scan
Report back.PS>. I had given up on System Restore way back in 2012. I do weekly full sysimages.
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GuestApril 7, 2017 at 3:39 pm #107157I never had scanning problems, because, frankly speaking, I just don’t scan.
But in the beginning of the week, both my Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 stopped updating the MSE definitions, both through MSE and Windows Update. It downloaded the new definitions, started to install, and then failed, reporting a network problem (after it had successfully downloaded the updated definitions).
I’ve manually downloaded the new definitions from the Microsoft website (and strangely the .exe apparently did nothing – no window, no message, no nothing) but it updated the definitions. Not sure if this fixed it or it got fixed from the MS side, but both Win 7 and 8.1’s MSE are back to normal).
But my hatred for Microsoft has yet to be patched and fixed, but that’s another story…
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