

Microsoft Security Essentials provides a fuller range of protection against malicious software than Windows Defender. I, like others reporting the issue, received a warning that my PC couldn't be scanned and my ant-malware service had stopped. I just tried running a manual Security Essentials scan on my Windows 7 SP1 desktop machine and got error message 0x800106ba. Windows 10 users don't seem to be affected. The problem is happening with some, but not all, users for the past several hours. Users are seeing their automatic anti-malware protection turned off without their knowledge and are seeing out-of-date virus definitions. How to use ChatGPT: What you need to know nowĪ number of Windows 7 and 8.1 users are encountering problems with Microsoft Security Essentials and Windows Defender.
