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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: wizzlbang on August 24, 2016, 12:25:31 AM

Title: svchost (secsvcs) gone after update?
Post by: wizzlbang on August 24, 2016, 12:25:31 AM
After the last avast update, I noticed one of my scvhost processes was no longer running. after some digging I figured out it was secsvcs, which is apparently related to windows defender

is this suppose to happen? I'm not worried about windows defender, to clarify, just worried about what may have made it deactivate.
Title: Re: svchost (secsvcs) gone after update?
Post by: Eddy on August 24, 2016, 12:28:06 AM
Latest Windows disables Defender when a av is installed.
On earlier versions of Windows avast disables defender.
Title: Re: svchost (secsvcs) gone after update?
Post by: wizzlbang on August 24, 2016, 12:30:44 AM
I haven't updated windows in awhile, was it only this last avast update that disables defender in older versions?
Title: Re: svchost (secsvcs) gone after update?
Post by: Asyn on August 24, 2016, 05:56:41 AM
...was it only this last avast update that disables defender in older versions?
Since build 2276.