[Simply Computers] Security Essentials "False Positive"

 

Sad tale of several hours lost. Recent events have set me to checking my backups. I found that this laptop had failed 4 or 5 recent scheduled backups.I Clicked on "Backup Now!" and watched. After over a half hour, it failed with a Microsoft Security Essentials error of 0x80070005. It was over 95% complete, and I lost all the work and time.

This Laptop is a Medeon brand, 2Gb Ram, Vista Home Premium (32 bit), with an AMD 64 AthlonX2 CPU. The backup Drive is a Western Digital 500 Gb, SCSI external HDD. (Slow, but that's why auto backup is scheduled for 2AM,Sunday)

A search for the error number turned up a LOT. All were about "Access Denied" and appeared to start after a recent MS update. Unfortunately, all the corrections I found applied only to XP, and had strong warnings about application to other versions.

Backup would not get beyond the False error, so I Tried to disable Security for a short time. "BIG BROTHER" MS puts massive roadblocks up to prevent this. I did a search for "Disable Security Essentials, and found thousands, all starting with "Unable to ".

I did find a way, and that expedient let me make a backup. However, until I find a way around the "false error", I wont be able to get automatic backups, at least on this machine.

Have any of you seen any of this?
Bill--W4BSG

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