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Windows Defender Download

by brucemck--2008 Jul 31, 2007 12:52AM PDT

I have downloaded Windows Defender on to my desktop but can not open it to install. I get the message "This installation package could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package."

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