strett

thanks for the help people but i uninstalled bitdefender and tried a rival security suite to see if it would have the same problem registering the antispyware software.........no problems. so it seems the problem lies with bitdefender for whatever reason. not sure i'll be going back to it either as i can't help but notice…

Hello strett, Could you try to uninstall Windows Defender? Maybe it's interfering with BitDefender and, as a result, the wrong info is shown in Security Center. hello cris, how would i go about uninstalling windows defender??

Dear strett Try what I said in this topic. The only thing that you have to do different is entering services.msc in the search field or press windows button together with r (so you get directly in the run prompt). Best regards Niels yeah i've tried that numerous times too........no change. any other ideas??

this is how it looks..........it used to say Bitdefender antispyware reports........ or something to that affect?????

Hi, This is in regards to BitDefender AntiVirus 2008 on Windows Vista (32 bit). Windows Security Center shows "Bitdefender Antivirus reports that it is up to date and virus scanning is on." But underneath that, under the heading "Spyware and other malware protection" it only says "Windows Defender is turned off." It says…