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Other => Viruses and worms => Topic started by: mapit on March 24, 2019, 06:57:23 AM

Title: How to turn on Windows Defender after uninstalling Avast Antivirus Free?
Post by: mapit on March 24, 2019, 06:57:23 AM

I have uninstalled Avast Antivirus Free. How can I turn on Windows Defender? It is not running now. Windows 10 Pro (1809).

Title: Re: How to turn on Windows Defender after uninstalling Avast Antivirus Free?
Post by: Pondus on March 24, 2019, 10:07:07 AM

Read and follow instructions, when done reboot computer

Using the Uninstall Utility for Avast Antivirus
https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/Uninstall-Antivirus-Utility

Title: Re: How to turn on Windows Defender after uninstalling Avast Antivirus Free?
Post by: DavidR on March 24, 2019, 11:21:06 AM

Quote from: mapit on March 24, 2019, 06:57:23 AM

I have uninstalled Avast Antivirus Free. How can I turn on Windows Defender? It is not running now. Windows 10 Pro (1809).

First have you rebooted after uninstalling Avast ?

Windows 10 should have restarted it automatically, in the same way that it disabled it when you install a third party antivirus (in this case Avast).

Have you gone to the Windows 10,  'Windows Defender Security Center' that should surely indicate what antivirus you have installed or not ?

Title: Re: How to turn on Windows Defender after uninstalling Avast Antivirus Free?
Post by: mapit on March 24, 2019, 02:54:51 PM

Quote from: Pondus on March 24, 2019, 10:07:07 AM

Read and follow instructions, when done reboot computer

Using the Uninstall Utility for Avast Antivirus
https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/Uninstall-Antivirus-Utility

I used Uninstall Utility for Avasta Antivirus. It removed Avasta Antivirus but for some reason the system did not return to the original state. Windows defender is not in real time scanning. Windows Defender urges to turn real time scanning on but it does not manage.  I can scan the system only by pushing "Scan now". After that scanning stops and I can read the scanning results.

Title: Re: How to turn on Windows Defender after uninstalling Avast Antivirus Free?
Post by: Pondus on March 24, 2019, 04:21:43 PM

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I used Uninstall Utility for Avasta Antivirus. It removed Avasta Antivirus

The name is avast .... not avasta


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