Re: Antivirus override

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 09/26/05 

Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:45:59 -0400

From: "MowGreen [MVP]" <mowgreen@nowandzen.com>

| visions,
|
| How were you able to "see" this entry, via Spybot or searching through
| the registry ?
| From what I've heard so far, the exclamation point ( ! ) added to
| AntiVirusOverride ! means that
|
| " The detection in Spybot means that the regval AntiVirusOverride is not
| equal to zero (which it should be). If it is zero, the AV monitoring
| in the Security Center of Windows XP SP2 is enabled. If it is
| non-zero, the AV monitoring would be disabled. "
| and ...
| " In several programming languages and elsewhere in the tech world, an
| exclamation mark means "not". "
|
| In plain English, it is possible that a malware has added the
| exclamation point so that you're not being notified that the installed
| AV is NOT monitoring the system.
|
| Is McAfee the installed AV ?
|
| MowGreen [MVP 2003-2005]
| ===============
| -343-* FDNY
| Never Forgotten
| ===============
|
| visions wrote:
|

Isn't that close to what I said...

"It is a Security Center override of warning if your AV software is not installed or
disabled." 

-- 
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm