Re: Security Center seems to be missing the antivirus panel


Nathan Eady wrote:
I'm in the process of going through all the Windows systems
on the network here to check the expiration dates on the
antivirus protection, so that we can schedule any needed
upgrades and whatnot. In the process of doing so, I
discovered on two systems that the Security Center, rather
including Antivirus, Firewall, and Updates, instead includes
Internet Options, Firewall, and Updates. The Internet Options
are in fact just the same Internet Explorer Options that appear
under Internet Options in the control panel, which also in any
case are irrelevant for us because we have deployed another
browser.

The antivirus is *not* irrelevant, however.

Additionally, "Change the way Security Center notifies me"
on the left is not a clickable link, even when logged in as
domain administrator.

These are XP Pro systems with SP2 installed, and they are
up to date with security updates as of this morning. They
are part what the Windows networking stuff calls a "domain",
but so are a number of other Windows systems that do not
have this issue -- part of the _same_ domain, that is, so I
suspect that is not very relevant.

I've tried to search for this, both the web and Google Groups,
but so far I have turned up nothing very relevant. Has anyone
else encountered this? Apart from uninstalling and reinstalling
SP2, which I'll try to get around to next week if I don't solve this
by then, is there something else I should be looking at?

The systems do not behave as if malware-infested, i.e.,
everything else is normal and smooth, except for this.

I try to encourage safe computing and to isolate the different
segments of the network as much as possible at the firewall,
but some of the users are, well, normal users, so I'd really
prefer to have the antivirus software monitored as well.
Call me paranoid.

I'm not really much of an NT guy (know more about the *nix
side of things and also the other Windows product line, but
only got into XP in the last couple of years, and have only
dealt with an NT/2K domain for the last six months or so
and still feel funny using the word "domain" outside the
context of DNS), so any pointers in the right direction would
be appreciated.

TIA,
Nathan Eady,
Technology Coordinator,
Galion Public Library

Nathan,

Make sure the Security Center service is running on those machines. If
it's not running you will see the screen you're describing.

Roman

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