First post, by yawetaG
So it seems Microsoft finally caught up with those people who had used the "Security Essentials nag screen"-fix on Windows XP (and possibly other users) and we are now bumping into this problem:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/fo … 72-8b61c146b655
(wonder how long that will stay up on M$' site)
Basically MS nuked the service (and the nag screen fix) with an update, meaning you can't use MSE at all anymore, even using older definitions (as they also disabled roll back). The way it behaves, allowing the service to restart before killing it 1-3 seconds later again, making me think I had caught some malware but MalwareBytes Antimalware finds nothing (of course). 😠
Anyway, the current fix mentioned by one of the users is to uninstall MSE version 4.5.216.0 and replace it with MSE version 4.4.304.0 (it apparently updates fine to the latest MSE definitions), but I guess that fix might not work for long if M$ simply randomly looks for systems that still have that old version installed and updates them to the new disabled version. I hope a better fix shows up.