I have just installed the last version o Avast Free Antivirus, scanned my PC and got seven alerts about msmpeng.exe.
1.- I can see this is Windows Defender so, is it a real infection or just a false positive?
2.- When I go to the results page where I am supposed to be able to take some actions on these results, I cannot take any.
I cannot choose any result so I cannot take any action on it. I guess there should be any place to mark the desired result and then choose the action but there is no place like that.
My OS is WinXP SP3 32bits
“msmpeng.exe” is located at “C:\Archivos de programa\Windows Defender” (that’s spanish, it must be “C:\Program Flies\Windows Defender” in english).
Thank you but I think that’s not the issue as I have checked the system sensivity section in both scans I made (getting the same results) and none of them has the “Ignore virus targeting” option check (see attached images).
In fact, that’s not issue for I still haven’t get the point to have an “access denied” error message 'cause the real issue is that I cannot take any action, I cannot select any result to select the action to take with… of course, I cannot even click the Apply button as no result has been checked and no action has been selected.