>From what I can determine, Defender is a built-in part of Windows and cannot be un-installed. It doesn't appear in the 'Programs and Features' list of programs to un-install. I'm able to use my Start menu to search for and find Defender but when I try to open it I get a message saying Defender is turned off. See the link below for info on this. Other websites say the same thing.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15788/how-to-uninstall-disable-and-remove-windows-defender.-also-how-turn-it-off/ Regards, Kevin On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Ryan Johnson <ryan.john...@cs.utoronto.ca> wrote: > On 22/02/2013 2:52 PM, KG wrote: >> >> Hello All, >> >> I recently installed Netbeans and Cygwin on my Windows 7 64-bit >> laptop. To test that everything was working fine I tried to build & >> run one of the example projects in Netbeans but I always get the same >> error messages. > > >> I have installed Windows Defender which as far as I know isn't running. > > It lies. Windows Defender is BLODA even when it claims not to be running. > Try uninstalling it (don't worry, Windows Update will be delighted to put it > back if you change your mind). > > Ryan > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
