Dear Mr L Rivits
Have you tried Malware Bytes (Free) as a standby test; to look for something nasty.
The other option is will Win Defender run in safe mode try that.
Crap Cleaner. CC Cleaner: run the registry cleaner option and see what comes up. Do not a this stage, delete anything unless you are sure.
I take it Windows Defender is your primary anti malware/ anti virus package - Groogle "Defender restarting repeatedly
Haver you just had a windows update ?
For starters
What version of windows O/S are you running ?
CAT III (Win 7/8.1 user.)
Edit: (Nov15 Post: Norton and Win Defender fighting each other results in this scenario.)
Last edited by Guest 112233; 15th December 2016 at 21:43.
Reason: Win 8.1 too