Posted May 17, 201410 yr I am running 8.1 and I get the message "Real-time protection couldn't be turned on" and "This opetation returned because the timeout period expired." and windows defender defaults to off. I have no other antivirus or anti spyware installed and I have tried all the solutions I have seen. I installed malewarebytes to see if I possibly had a virus which caused this, but I uninstalled it after I didn't find anything significant. Please help. Continue reading...
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