Windows 10 Does Not Detect the Installed Antivirus

Avast!, Kaspersky, Protegent is installed on your Windows 10.

But Windows 10 tells you that no antivirus is installed.

But the protections of the latter work.

Sometimes Windows 10 displays false information.

This article shows you how to make Windows 10 detect the installed antivirus software.

Windows 10 comes with Windows Defender Antivirus.

When you don't install a third-party antivirus, it's the third-party antivirus that protects your PC.

But in the case of installing antivirus, Windows 10 disables Windows Defender.

In the security settings, Windows 10 indicates that your third-party antivirus is installed and active.

Avast! active on Windows 10

The Windows Defender shield is then with a green checkmark.

This is to tell you that your PC is well protected.

In some cases, Windows does not detect your antivirus.

Virus protection can also get blocked on obtaining protection information.

The first thing to do is to check that your antivirus is up to date.

To do this, open it from the icon at the bottom right next to the clock.

When your antivirus is not up to date, it will let you know.

Indeed it harms the protection of your PC.

You must also verify that real-time protection is active.

Again, the latter warns you when it is deactivated.

If nothing works, the easiest way is to uninstall and reinstall your antivirus.

If you have difficulty uninstalling it, then follow this article.

Certain Windows services are required for virus protection to work.

If these are not active then Windows 10 may return incorrect information.

To check :

On your keyboard, press Windows key + R
Enter Regedit and OK.
On the left, expand the following tree: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ Wscsvc
On the right, Start must have the value 2.
If this is not the case, double-click on it and correct to put 2
Restart your PC for the changes to take effect.

If this does not correct the problem, open an administrator command prompt.

Place the following orders in succession.

This should indicate that everything is consistent, otherwise, Windows will attempt to correct the issues.

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