Windows Defender automatically keeps turning off...

It keeps automatically turning off unexpectedly, I am using Windows Vista
Home Basic, I also have Windows Live Onecare, it keeps doing this for some
reason and when I try to do full scan in Defender, I get an error. The
problem just occured this morning...help
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Cuzz

Cuzz <lucaswiggins@hotmail.com> wrote:

>It keeps automatically turning off unexpectedly, I am using Windows Vista
>Home Basic, I also have Windows Live Onecare, it keeps doing this for some
>reason and when I try to do full scan in Defender, I get an error. The
>problem just occured this morning...help

Defender and Live OneCare are incompatible.

"Cuzz" <lucaswiggins@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:21A945FF-A82D-424E-B388-45B6E05A62F4@microsoft.com...
> It keeps automatically turning off unexpectedly, I am using Windows
> Vista
> Home Basic, I also have Windows Live Onecare, it keeps doing this for
> some
> reason and when I try to do full scan in Defender, I get an error.
> The
> problem just occured this morning...help
> --
> Cuzz

One Care takes over the job from Defender so Defender and also the
Windows Firewall are no longer used.

Tom

Cuzz wrote:
> It keeps automatically turning off unexpectedly, I am using Windows Vista
> Home Basic, I also have Windows Live Onecare, it keeps doing this for some
> reason and when I try to do full scan in Defender, I get an error. The
> problem just occured this morning...help

From what I understand, malware can target Defender and disable it on
Vista.