Internet explorer every download has a virus

I'm definitely going to try this next time it happens. I've been wrestling with this issue for a couple of days now. A workstation had a virus. I cleaned it out. But the Windows Defender service wouldn't start. Error message : Error 0xc1. This fixed it. Home Windows Windows Server How-tos. Internet Explorer - File xxx contained a virus and was deleted.

Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to A. User's post on May 16, No changes were made to the system prior to this. It was completely random that it came up. I will try safe mode and report back. Okay, I tried safe mode with networking and the same error occurs. In reply to chimmike's post on May 16, Hi, It seems that Microsoft Security Essentials is responsible for this issue. User's post on May 17, Hello- I actually tried to update MSE after this began, but I got an error every time I tried to open it, either something related to it not being found or not being on an administrator account which isn't true.

What the heck is going on? In reply to chimmike's post on May 17, Hi, This problem occurs when some files in the update are missing, even though the update is downloaded and extracted successfully. User's post on May 18, Hi, Thanks for the update. It works fine and these downloads are from trusted sites like Microsoft.

I think we are bugged in Internet Explorer. Thanks for any assistance that can solve this targeted problem. In reply to mikeferri's post on June 14, I have had an offsite user with the same issue. I'm not sold that it is an MSE issue. MSE was never installed on the workstation. The problem is persistent in all browsers. I've done a complete removal of anti-virus and also used ccleaner to delete any broken and unnecessary entries in the registry.

Even with no anti-virus installed it still prompts stating a virus. Something is broke in Windows. Oh, and it doesn't have anything to do with a corrupted user account. Defender gets broken. There is a fix I need to hunt it down though. Malwarebytes was not.

The Rescue Disk was run straight from the disk without starting windows. Seems like defender is corrupt. Looking at the above link, the guy seems to have hit it on the head. Every time you download something it tells you that the file is infected and it removes it from your system.

It's Defender, not IE. When this hit a system I was working on I figured that part out when I couldn't download anything, regardless of browser.

Windows Defender is set to intercept anything, from any browser, and when it's broken you're SOL on downloading. Hopefully the instructions in that link will fix it. I guess you're situation was different. I guess I shouldn't be surprised I've seen similar issues on clean computers and it's a IE bug. Must be a bug somewhere but all settings look ok and yes files downloads are enabled under options.

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