Hi all,
Just thought I would share an experience I had today.
I was seeing loads of Errors in Windows System logs from Spybot.
Sorry I cant remember the exact full error message but it mentioned something like "..needs to be Assembly"
they have been occurring many times lately so I decided to bite the bullet and uninstall Spybot.
I then reinstalled (v.2.4)
Immediately I started to hit problems in windows with the OS reporting there was no active AV running.
Im using Windows 10 [10.0.15063]
As i use Windows Defender this was a worry.
I checked Defender and it wouldnt update and I saw a message that the service was not running.
On attempting to run the service in Services.msc I got this error message:
"Windows could not start the Windows Defender Advanced Threat

Protection Service service on Local Computer.

Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly. "

I did an SFC /SCANNOW but this did not resolve the issue.
I then did a bit of googling and found this site;
https://www.tenforums.com/antivirus-...or-1067-a.html
The site suggested this potential fix to be run in Powershell:
dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
Unfortunately this didnt work either.
I decided to look into Spybot settings as I had never had this issue previously and thats when I found the setting to integrate spybot with Windows Security Centre.
I unchecked the option and stopped the service within Spybot and now Windows Defender is updating happily.

Has anyone else seen this happen?
What did you do to resolve?
Is Windows Security Centre Integration in Spybot set to "Started" or "Stopped" now?
What are the potential risk, if any, of not having the integration enabled?

Thanks for reading.

Regards,
barneybloggs