Click Protection updates. Click Check for updates to download new protection updates if there are any. Click on Restore defaults in the left pane. Click on the Restore defaults button and reboot your PC. Click on System and Security. Click on Windows Firewall. On the left pane, click the Restore defaults link.
Click the Restore defaults button. Click Yes to confirm. Restart the Security Center Service. Run an SFC scan. Install the latest update. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions.
Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions. Too technical. Not enough information. Not enough pictures. Any additional feedback? Submit feedback. Thank you for your feedback! Vista tower Build — Engine Version: 1. Sorry to say, the laptop was not in use for about three months this spring and summer, so the last successful WD definitions installation is from May 24, definition version 1. I tried the Belarc Advisor on both machines.
I got a chance to do something like this today. At first, things seemed to be working OK and at the end of the lengthy process I had the following display:. Next I dutifully rebooted—and reached the black screen again. In case the Nvidia graphics card was getting in the way, I decided to remove it. But the result was no better: still no display.
Then again, maybe that was due to having installed the updates first with the Nvidia card in place. Experiments with 0patch and OSArmor on the Vista laptop have worked out well. For good measure, I also tried version 9. I obtained identical results as in the screenshot above. Just an FYI that the change log history. I assume that means that ESR v9.
I installed these updates manually back in June and can confirm that I still have OS build 6. Hi lmacri , thank you for the extensive discussion there. I never knew those June exploits had such fanciful names!
As usual, I finish reading their description understanding less than before I started. For example, there are 8 CVEs listed for Vista on that page, but your report and also my memory of it are that there were just 4 or 5 patches. Since extended support for Vista ended on April 11, , then technically there would not be any further updates available for it. More on that later. When you ran WSUS Offline on the Vista tower, it shows you had 3 of 5 missing updates successfully install that you previously could not install manually:.
It shows they installed but you still ended up with the black screen issue upon the completion of running WSUS Update and rebooting. But, did these updates actually install? I also noticed the Trusted Root Certificates rootsupd. I was hoping the invaluable information lmacri has provided would lead us to some greater insight and a successful resolution as well.
There really should be no reason why anyone running Vista today could not successfully continue to keep it completely up-to-date by applying Server updates starting in May until January and even Server ESU updates starting in February until now. Defender will still not update but there are always other free AV products that would be able to fill in this void quite nicely. FWIW, I think this is another wise decision on your part as well.
As you saw, some of the questions you had were subsequently taken care of. Earlier, I had tried version When I got to the end of that DOS box and the updater claimed3 of the 5 updates had installed successfully, I was very hopeful, but then we had another black screen on reboot. According to the Update History, once again KB failed to actually install. I agree with you on trying to get the Vista laptop up to date as much as possible.
BTW both Vista systems have Norton on them, and Norton has announced they will stop issuing new virus definitions for Vista and XP sometime early in As my N subscription expires in December, I already have a replacement lined up: Panda Dome , which is still advertised as compatible with Vista.
As noted in that MS Answers thread:. To confirm that KB rel. Oct , KB rel. Sep and KB rel. At the end of the day this is just a side discussion to your problem. The original point I was trying to make is that ESR v9. As you pointed out in your explanation, indeed it is the case that the Vista laptop was reinstalled more recently; IIRC, some years ago I had installed some.
That was an incentive to start making image backups on a regular basis. The tower has every one of the patches mentioned in the previous sentence. I would add that perhaps you might want to run this version without the NVIDIA card installed in the event WSUS is able to find and install any missing updates to see if the reboot is also successful. I would also suggest you try to run v9.
OK, I tried v9. These missing trust certificates can also prevent Vista SP2 users with Norton antivirus products from upgrading to the latest Norton v From what I understand, an alternate way to add these missing trust certificates on both Win XP and Vista machines is to run the rootsupd.
I exchanged a few PMs with a Norton employee on this topic and suspect that ongoing issues with trust certificates on older OSs is one of the main reasons why Norton announced on Sep that they will discontinue support for Win XP and Vista in early Wondering if I should try instead the method involving rootsupd.
Not to throw even more balls up in the air, but I can report that both of my Vista x64 machines do have Norton version Neither system has KB installed. I drag that machine into this sorry mess to list the following data bits about it, in case they are relevant:. This machine has not received that I remember any Server updates.
This experience persuaded me to stop spending time trying to keep these tertiary and quaternary systems up to date with Server patches, as the effort-to-reward ratio was poor. Go figure. I have same issues with WD…. Windows Defender Version: 1. You have the last engine version that was compatible with Vista, fellow anonymous poster.
Still, you might be interested in a link that was posted by Imacri in a September 17 reply to 7ProSP1 above. None of the posters here seem to have noticed that VistaLover was able to update definitions without updating the engine.
Some time around Aug Microsoft started bundling the mpas-fe. As far as I know, your problem with the Vista desktop that boots into a black screen as soon as a Win Server updates changes the build to v6. This thread has piqued my interest, and I have done some tests on a Windows Vista x64 VMware virtual machine. The virtual machine is patched to June including the 5 updates released after the end of extended support for Vista. The build version of Vista is 6. Specified updates below are all supposedly for Windows Server but can all be installed on Windows Vista.
Build version of Vista changed to 6. Returned error EFD. Refused to install. This is just a little test but from this experience I am forced to agree with Imacri that we may no longer be able to install Windows Defender updates on Windows Vista even though the necessary SHA-2 updates appears to be successfully installed.
Out of curiosity I also took a Windows Server x64 VMware virtual machine and did a test to see what will happen. The virtual machine was patched to August just before the change to the rollup model in September Available updates were displayed. I stand corrected. Thank you for pointing out my error. The latest mpas-fe. So how exactly does VistaLover use newer mpas-fe. Instead of running the mpas-fe. I just tried extracting the individual files from the latest mpas-fe.
Did this on both the tower and the laptop. There was no visible change: Defender is still stuck on old definition versions. Question: did you unregister the old. If you install a program, it registers the. But if you are just swapping files, you may have to reregister. Usually, you unregister the old version, then remove it. Then you replace it with the newer version and regsvr32 registers the newer version that is in the path you give it.
In this folder there are four subfolders, the first of which is named with a seemingly random sequence of alphanumeric characters inside curly brackets, the second one named Backup, the third one Default, and the last one Updates. The Default subfolder has three files from and The Backups subfolder has more recent stuff, including mpengine.
The randomly-named subfolder contains three files with those same names, but from July 9, The August 3 date used to show up there, until I started trying to update WD unsuccessfully just prior to starting this thread. The mpengine. So, if I understand your instructions correctly, I would 1 unregister mpengine. Unregister, remove, replace, register. I navigated to the randomly-named Definitions Updates subfolder and tried to unregister mpengine.
This is what happened:. Maybe I should try the method outlined by Anonymous below , it may involve fewer minefields to navigate. Im the one with the offi not updating…so i managed to show my WD updated.. Let u know if succeed. There are currently links there for the August updates e. I personally prefer to use the self-extracting. I replace in backup and the other long folder…just in case i backup that old definition folder restart wd service note: after wd restart i didnt see a change.. We shall see for how long this method keeps working maybe until Redmond sees this thread , but for now it looks like we have a solution.
For the Vista tower, I did not even need to reboot the machine. Just make sure to place the two new. I was briefly back at the August 3 definitions that, early on in this thread, had seemed to disappear in favor of the July 9 definitions, until I put the September 24 defs in both subfolders. I am LK the off guy …thanks Imacri.. Cyber…good to hear that worked ok both folder were to do the job..
Other anonymous poster here. Glad this thread finally got somewhere. Congratulations, Cybertooth! Your persistence has paid off. A huge and sincere thank you to lmacri , our two anonymous posters, James Bond , PKCano and EP for their insightful and excellent contributions in helping Cybertooth solve this incredibly frustrating dilemma. I know I have certainly learned a great deal from this problem solving journey.
I, too, learned a lot from the discussion. And I will absolutely take your advice to leave the Vista tower alone from here on out! BTW, this morning the Vista laptop also successfully updated the Windows Defender definitions via the same method that worked for the tower. Click Windows Defender, and click Remove. This will uninstall Windows Defender. Temporarily assign a drive letter to the System Reserved partition.
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