Renewed McAfee - now Windows Defender popup keeps popping up

do you have Vista?  try this.

I have Vista 32 and this worked for me, everyone told me to either uninstall which isn't an option with Vista or to disable it.  I didn't want to disable, I wanted to use it.  Try this.  After doing this, I rechecked mine to make it active again and all is well.

Originally Posted by Bijoy

I've also seen this issue these days..

I've a solution for this..But I am not sure whetehr this is a permanent one..

Open the 'services' window (Start >> Run >> services.msc)

Navigate to Windows defender and double click it then start the service..

Make sure that the 'start up typel is set to 'automatic'..

This can resolve the issue..

Just try it and let me know whether it's working

Please read this article HERE from McAfee.

Thanks for posting that Red Dawn. :emotion-21: I wish I had seen it about a week or two ago because I had that error message come up on one of my systems that has McAfee SecurityCenter installed. I finally got it to stop displaying the message by disabling Defender using MSCONFIG, restarting, reenabling Defender and then restarting again. This ended up keeping the Defender service from starting. The strange thing is that on this system both SecurityCenter and Defender are coexisting peacefully with no error message appearing. Both systems have the same SecurityCenter versions and both are updated so it seems that this one should show the error message but doesn't. I did know that SecurityCenter was disabling Defender but didn't realize that it would pop up that error message until it finally did. I've yet to figure out why both are active on this system w/o problem though.