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Old September 9th 13, 08:25 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Well, its me yet again, in trouble with Win 8.

I knew I had no malware protection so Googled Miscrosft Security
Essentials.
A long list came up --- top one a "Download Microsoft Secuity
Essentials" page. Carelessly, I failed to notice that it was not
Microsofts "official" download site.
Well --- what I got was a total foul up. First it set IE as the
default search engine, installed some toolbars I can't remove
and most of all, prevents or blocks real downloads of MSE
(the official site says it was downloaded, but when I do
a search for it it isn't found).
So, by hasty action has totally mesed up the computer.
Any helpful ideas would be much appreciated.

I still have an installer for AVG2014 . But even if that works,
it will bring a host of new problems!
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Old September 9th 13, 08:49 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default Now, How to get MSE

On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:43:09 -0500, Glenn wrote:

On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:25:20 -0500, wrote:


Well, its me yet again, in trouble with Win 8.

I knew I had no malware protection so Googled Miscrosft Security
Essentials.
A long list came up --- top one a "Download Microsoft Secuity
Essentials" page. Carelessly, I failed to notice that it was not
Microsofts "official" download site.
Well --- what I got was a total foul up. First it set IE as the
default search engine, installed some toolbars I can't remove
and most of all, prevents or blocks real downloads of MSE
(the official site says it was downloaded, but when I do
a search for it it isn't found).
So, by hasty action has totally mesed up the computer.
Any helpful ideas would be much appreciated.

I still have an installer for AVG2014 . But even if that works,
it will bring a host of new problems!


I made a similar mistake but it was early in the install so I started
over at my previous save. There is no point to downloading Security
Essentials as it's been replaced by a more powerful Windows Defender.
I used windows 7 file recovery, image copy for backup and restore
(works fine under 8) until things stabilized (I still use it every few
months).



"Started over from previous save". ??
That draws a blank here!?
I don't know of any "previous saves" or
how to get them if I have any!
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Old September 9th 13, 09:09 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default Now, How to get MSE

On 2013-09-09, wrote:

Well, its me yet again, in trouble with Win 8.

I knew I had no malware protection so Googled Miscrosft Security
Essentials.
A long list came up --- top one a "Download Microsoft Secuity
Essentials" page. Carelessly, I failed to notice that it was not
Microsofts "official" download site.
Well --- what I got was a total foul up. First it set IE as the
default search engine, installed some toolbars I can't remove
and most of all, prevents or blocks real downloads of MSE
(the official site says it was downloaded, but when I do
a search for it it isn't found).
So, by hasty action has totally mesed up the computer.
Any helpful ideas would be much appreciated.

I still have an installer for AVG2014 . But even if that works,
it will bring a host of new problems!


If you are running win8, you don't need MSE as the win8 Defender
has all the stuff that MSE was doing; however, win7 needs the MSE
or something similar.

MS messed up in naming where win7 needed both defender & mse
while in win8, both defender & mse is in 1 package called Defender.

Anyway, MSE doesn't "install" but just runs with asking whether one
wants a limited, full or customized execution; I do have an older
version on my download directory & it does ask if I want to update
which doesn't download a "permanent" file but just updates to
running it. Had checked this info at the ms website as to why I
didn't get an updated version on my download directory.
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Old September 9th 13, 09:15 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:49:16 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:43:09 -0500, Glenn wrote:

On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:25:20 -0500,
wrote:


Well, its me yet again, in trouble with Win 8.

I knew I had no malware protection so Googled Miscrosft Security
Essentials.
A long list came up --- top one a "Download Microsoft Secuity
Essentials" page. Carelessly, I failed to notice that it was not
Microsofts "official" download site.
Well --- what I got was a total foul up. First it set IE as the
default search engine, installed some toolbars I can't remove
and most of all, prevents or blocks real downloads of MSE
(the official site says it was downloaded, but when I do
a search for it it isn't found).
So, by hasty action has totally mesed up the computer.
Any helpful ideas would be much appreciated.

I still have an installer for AVG2014 . But even if that works,
it will bring a host of new problems!


I made a similar mistake but it was early in the install so I started
over at my previous save. There is no point to downloading Security
Essentials as it's been replaced by a more powerful Windows Defender.
I used windows 7 file recovery, image copy for backup and restore
(works fine under 8) until things stabilized (I still use it every few
months).



"Started over from previous save". ??
That draws a blank here!?
I don't know of any "previous saves" or
how to get them if I have any!



I have no idea as the first thing I do with a new system is back up a
system image. How were you planning on starting over after a loss of
system code? If it were me, I'd check with whomever sold it to me.
  #6  
Old September 9th 13, 09:26 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Glenn
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On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:15:32 -0500, Glenn wrote:


On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:49:16 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:43:09 -0500, Glenn wrote:

On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:25:20 -0500,
wrote:


Well, its me yet again, in trouble with Win 8.

I knew I had no malware protection so Googled Miscrosft Security
Essentials.
A long list came up --- top one a "Download Microsoft Secuity
Essentials" page. Carelessly, I failed to notice that it was not
Microsofts "official" download site.
Well --- what I got was a total foul up. First it set IE as the
default search engine, installed some toolbars I can't remove
and most of all, prevents or blocks real downloads of MSE
(the official site says it was downloaded, but when I do
a search for it it isn't found).
So, by hasty action has totally mesed up the computer.
Any helpful ideas would be much appreciated.

I still have an installer for AVG2014 . But even if that works,
it will bring a host of new problems!

I made a similar mistake but it was early in the install so I started
over at my previous save. There is no point to downloading Security
Essentials as it's been replaced by a more powerful Windows Defender.
I used windows 7 file recovery, image copy for backup and restore
(works fine under 8) until things stabilized (I still use it every few
months).



"Started over from previous save". ??
That draws a blank here!?
I don't know of any "previous saves" or
how to get them if I have any!



I have no idea as the first thing I do with a new system is back up a
system image. How were you planning on starting over after a loss of
system code? If it were me, I'd check with whomever sold it to me.


I forgot to mention that the system provider, Lenovo in my case,
provides a recovery path so again check with the seller. It will be
more work than periodic backups and you will have to recreate all the
work you did between the time you got the system until it failed.
 




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