Windows Defender Reports Firewall Action Needed

edfaught

Windows 10 Home Version 1803

Bitdefender Total Protection 2019

Windows Defender reports Bitdefender Firewall actions needed but I find none.

 

Anisoara S.

Hello /index.php?/profile/138359-edfaught/&do=hovercard" data-mentionid="138359" href="<___base_url___>/index.php?/profile/138359-edfaught/" rel="">@edfaught,

In order to address the encountered situation with Windows Security Center reporting that Bitdefender Firewall is turned OFF, please follow the steps from the article below:

https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/answer/9329/

When Bitdefender is installed and Firewall is activated, Windows Firewall will be turned OFF because these functions will be taken over by Bitdefender.

Let us know how everything goes.

Have a great day ahead!

edfaught

While the issue is not that the firewall is turned off, but rather that Windows Security Center reports "Actions Needed", I followed the steps in the referenced article anyway and came up only with this after winmgmt reported "WMI repository is consistent":

C:\WINDOWS\system32>winmgmt/resetrepository

WMI repository reset failed

Error code:     0x8007041B

Facility:       Win32

Description:    A stop control has been sent to a service that other running services are dependent on.

Anisoara S.

Hello /index.php?/profile/138359-edfaught/&do=hovercard" data-mentionid="138359" href="<___base_url___>/index.php?/profile/138359-edfaught/" rel="">@edfaught,

Please reboot your device and if the issue still persists, follow the steps from our article again.

Let us know how everything goes.

Have a great day ahead!

edfaught

I was able to run the repository reset from safe mode and that fixed the problem, likely caused originally by a hardware issue that apparently came up about the same time.

Thank you!