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in my experience stuff like this is usually too complex to fix. Best thing to do is to rest your OS to Factory - do a fresh install. This might seem like a bit of a bummer if you've got lots of stuff on your machine but it's probably quicker in the long run.
My old windows dev box went down and it took me a week to reset, reinstall and get everything up and running. It literally cost me a weeks work, but it was still less time than it would have taken me to diagnose, isolate and repair the fault. -
An alternative to reseting, there is a restore from a known working state, if you have that feature enabled.
I agree fixing it is not the way ti go, you don't know what else is broken, the registry might be a tampered too, the virus might reinstall on its own after you fix things, it is just not worth it. -
@electrineer I've got games so i can't ....
when your code is a mess but everything work out in the end
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
My windows defender has gone out of the window.
Now whenever i open windows security app, it shows a blank page.
There's is no tray process running and I can't find any service too.
I know it's a huge virus attack.
Can anyone suggest some methods to know what is causing this problem?
This has happened once before. That time i used DISM and checked windows files integrity. It replaced corrupted ones and then windows worked fine.
This time i want to know the cause.
I wanna root it out and rip it apart.
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