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windows defender & security center services keep turning off
Hello, my problem is that windows defender is turned off, and I cant get it to restart.
I had a malware issue, after clicking a faulty setup file.
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware deleted around 900 infected files.
After reboot I realised that Windows Defender was turned off.
I went into the "services" program and the "Windows Defender Service" entry was missing from it and
the "Security Center" entry is turned off. I try to switch it back on, but it keeps turning itself off again.
I tried scanning for rootkits, but there was none. I also tried sfc /scannow, it does find corrupted files but it couldn't fix all of them.
I managed to find a download to implement the windows defender service again, but... it wasn't recognised because there was no registry entry ? Then I copied the registry entry from my laptop who also has windows 10 installed. But I don't know why but the register keeps deleting any entry when I import it in the registry.
I also had no other anti-virus programs ever installed except for Malwarebytes.
I hope someone can help me here, I really don't want to do a system reset or any sort of fresh install, please help.