Windows 10: Latest Win10 accumulative patch broke antivirus protection

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.

:)

 

Antivirus protection

No. Please read:
Why it isn't a good idea to run multiple full antivirus products at the same time

But you can always use other tools for on-demand scans, see:

• this Forum Article:
  List of Malware Removal Tools
• this
  List of Removal Guides

In addition, suggestion to read:

• Best Practices for Safe Computing - Prevention of Malware Infection
  
• Top 10 Ways PUPs Sneak Onto Your Computer. And How To Avoid Them.
  

 

New Vista Patch Causing Problems

AVG is one of the best antivirus protection out there, used by many corporate companies worldwide, its not a good sign M$ released a patch that screws even more software programs up, especially given Vistas already almost neverending list of problems.

 

Win10: windows update stuck at never ending loop ?

When in win10:

• Update&security -> Windows update -> Finding update... .... .... ....

Planning to download the latest Win10.ISO (vers.1803) and manually update:
- Then wait that my ordered new SSD arrives and clone the old HDD to it.