I installed the recently released April 14, 2020 KB4549951 patch today, after booting back up I notice a red cross on the windows security shield icon in the taskbar. I open the thing up, it says the antivirus and threat detection service has been stopped (no hint why), I click through to the relevant section, and there is a button to restart the service. I click it, animating dots appear which animate perpetually, then after a couple minutes an error window pops up saying "an unexpected error occurred, try again" (with no further elaboration or information on any specifics). I OK this window away - dots are still animating away, and...nothing.
...So now, I have no AV protection anymore, apparently. For who knows what reason, but the most recent patch (which installed fine apparently, with no complaints from windows) apparently borked it somehow. I've considered trying to uninstall it, but that's no good really since it was apparently fixing a big bunch of exploits, but I'm probably more open to threats this way I'm thinking. Effin microsoft, eh!
So what to do? What is there to do? *shrug* I don't even know what's wrong specifically! Windows isn't saying. It's like fumbling around in a black box.
...So now, I have no AV protection anymore, apparently. For who knows what reason, but the most recent patch (which installed fine apparently, with no complaints from windows) apparently borked it somehow. I've considered trying to uninstall it, but that's no good really since it was apparently fixing a big bunch of exploits, but I'm probably more open to threats this way I'm thinking. Effin microsoft, eh!
So what to do? What is there to do? *shrug* I don't even know what's wrong specifically! Windows isn't saying. It's like fumbling around in a black box.