Re: Security Center reporting no firewall or antiVirus

From: PA Bear (PABearMVP_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/12/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 14:18:39 -0500

Ignore those Spybot results for now. (Do you have the latest definitions?)

Have you configured Security Center to ignore the status of AVG and ZA,
telling it that you'll monitor their status yourself? Are both AVG and ZA
fully up-to-date? 

-- 
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), AH-VSOP
alansd wrote:
> For the last couple of days the Windows Security Centre has reported that
> apparently I have no Firewall or Virus Checker installed however I have
> AVG (free edition) and ZoneAlarm installed and they have always been
> previously identified.
>
> I ran AVG, AdAware, MS AntiSpyware Beta,  and they reported nothing found
> but Spybot V1.4  reported the following:-
>
>
> Windows Security Centre.AntivirusOverride
> Settings
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security
> Center\AntivirusOverride!=dword:0
>
> Windows Security Center.FirewallOverride
> Settings
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security
> Center\FirewallOverride!=dword:0
>
>
> I let Spybot fix the problems but on restart the Security centre still
> doesn't see the two programs. Can this be fixed other than turning off
> the monitoring facility ? Spybot is now reporting no problems.
>
> Alansd

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