So I noticed my PC was running a bit slow yesterday. While doing my usual checks, and when I went to see my anti-virus software, Windows Defender Antivirus, I noticed it was disabled. After looking through, turned out Spybot Search & Destroy is pretending to be my anti-virus software! One problem, I use the free version of Spybot, which does not have the anti-virus functionality (Only the paid for version has this). After spending a good few hours trying to troubleshoot without any success, I decided to uninstall Spybot. Internet search was no help.
Got a couple of questions:
- Is Spybot Search & Destroy still safe? Last I checked up was a few years ago.
- If so, is there a way to install Spybot and not have it pretend to be something it's not; namely my AV software?
All this seems to have happened recently when I did a re-install of Spybot with the latest version. Did that as the scan kept crashing out when i clicked "Fix selected"
Thanks in advance for any help.