Blue an yellow shield flashing

[ER1975]

Windows 10. Flashing blue and yellow shield at the task bar. Cannot stop it nor remove it

 

[Colif]

Sounds like windows defender. are you running any Av apart from windows defender? You cannot turn it off unless you have another Anti Virus program installed. I can only guess its running a scan.

go to settings/update & security/Windows defender and see if its on or not. Since last patch it can be set to run occasionally even if you have another AV

 

[ER1975]

Sounds like windows defender. are you running any Av apart from windows defender? You cannot turn it off unless you have another Anti Virus program installed. I can only guess its running a scan.

go to settings/update & security/Windows defender and see if its on or not. Since last patch it can be set to run occasionally even if you have another AV

Dear Colif
Thank you for addressing my question. The trouble is that this yellow blue shield appeared just after starting my laptop following a routine update. Thinking similarly to what you wrote I decided to do a full defender anti malware ( which has that blue/ yellow shield symbol) scan. It ran its course, finished but the flashing symbol didn't stop and also prevents me from clicking successfully all icons at the bottom task bar. Restating the PC didn't help either. I do have macafee antivirus as well. This icon had never appeared ever before. I also applied a clean reboot process to no avail.
Very best
ER1975

 

[Colif]

have a look in control panel/system & security/Security & Maintenance. Are there any warnings? Have a look in the security section and see if Macafee is showing under firewall & Virus Protection.

Did you look in settings/update & security/Windows defender and see if its on or not. On my PC, I had to turn it on last night to get it to scan occasionally, it isn't meant to come on by itself

However, on another PC here it does start randomly by itself and since we have Eset on machine, having 2 AV running at start up slows PC down to a crawl. Wonder if its a coincidence we used to have Macafee on it as well. Do you have latest version of Macafee?

Are you on the latest build of Win 10? Did you get Anniversary update last month?

 

[ER1975]

Hi Colif
Thank you for persisting with helping me with the issue of yellow/ blue shield flashing.
It seems to have now been resolved.
Best regards
ER 1975

 

[peterpierre]

Hi Colif
Thank you for persisting with helping me with the issue of yellow/ blue shield flashing.
It seems to have now been resolved.
Best regards
ER 1975

To ER 1975
I have the same problem as you had described. Please could you remember how it was fixed ?
thanks in advance
Pete

 

[Andaesa]

CTRL + ALT + DELETE, find a task that say "..administrative..." in it, click it then click "End Task"