Recorder service unable to start, running Microsoft Security Essentials
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ABOUT
There are cases of Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) falsely detecting a virus in the ARGUS TV Recorder database file preventing ARGUS TV Recorder Service from starting.
What happens
MSE detects ‘’Exploit:Win32/CVE-2011-0658’’ in the file ‘’C:\ProgramData\ARGUS TV\ARGUS TV.Recorder.sdf’’ and quarantines the item. This file is critical to ARGUS TV Recorder Service and therefore ARGUS TV Recorder Service is unable to start.
How to fix it
Assuming you are sure there is no threat from this file, you can tell your antivirus to restore this file to its proper location. Once the file is restored, start the ARGUS TV Recorder Service or reboot your PC.
Online Virus scanners
Here is a list of free online virus scanning options. This list is provided for convenience only, in no way do we guarantee the availability or reliability of these tools. These scanners allow you to upload a file and scan it using several free online virus scanners, returning the result from each.
This list is provided for convenience only.
- VirScan: http://virscan.org/
- VirusTotal: http://www.virustotal.com/
- Jotti: http://virusscan.jotti.org/en