How to remove stuff that XP SP2 Installs in your Sys tray without your permission????

[Jim]

I installed XP Service Pack 2, and it installed something in my system
tray without my permission, it's a little red shield supposedly a
virus checker and firewall and who knows what else. I already use
McAfee for these tasks, so how can I purge this unwanted program from
my system? McAfee disabled them but the icon is still there and
every bootup I get an unwanted balloon message.

Can SP2 be un-installed? Linux is looking better and better....

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Try this:

Control Panel>Security Center - left hand side 'Change the way Security
Center alerts me'.

 

[Touch Base]

Open Control Panel\Double click on Security Center\Under Resources click on
'Change the way Security Center alerts me' unclick 'Firewall', 'Anti-Virus'
& Automatic Updates' if you wish.

'Can SP2 be un-installed? Linux is looking better and better....'

I suppose so when you don't know your way around.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I installed XP Service Pack 2, and it installed something in my
system tray without my permission, it's a little red shield
supposedly a virus checker and firewall and who knows what else. I
already use McAfee for these tasks, so how can I purge this unwanted
program from my system? McAfee disabled them but the icon is still
there and every bootup I get an unwanted balloon message.

Can SP2 be un-installed? Linux is looking better and better....

Try this:

Control Panel>Security Center - left hand side 'Change the way
Security Center alerts me'.

Or go with Linux.. That should be interesting.

 

[Mike H]

Yo Jim

What you should do is this.. install any one of the many forms of Linux..
you shouldn't need instruction on this because Linux is simple, yes?.. then
after playing about with it (you will have to do this because the
conventions are a little different), you join a Linux newsgroup, complain
about something relatively simple, and make the statement that XP is looking
better and better.. if you get lucky, you could make this full circle in
less than twenty four hours..

Happy computing..

Mike H

 

[Jim]

Thanks Will, that did it.

Jim

 

[Will Denny]

That's good Jim - glad to help.

 

[Michael Stevens]

Yo Jim

What you should do is this.. install any one of the many forms of
Linux.. you shouldn't need instruction on this because Linux is
simple, yes?.. then after playing about with it (you will have to do
this because the conventions are a little different), you join a
Linux newsgroup, complain about something relatively simple, and make
the statement that XP is looking better and better.. if you get
lucky, you could make this full circle in less than twenty four
hours..
Happy computing..

;~^)

--
Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
(e-mail address removed)
http://michaelstevenstech.com
For a better newsgroup experience. Setup a newsreader.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

 

[...D.]

Hi
Try this:
Control Panel>Security Center - left hand side 'Change the way Security
Center alerts me'.

You know Will, I want to run without any software firewall because I am
behind a Netgear router & it is a firewall. I can log into it to see
anything it might have blocked. Of course no new outgoing is informed,
but the XP firewall doesn't do that either.

But I have gone through the whole deal with "I am aware of my firewall
situation" * don't inform me", and whatever else I was supposed to do, I
did it, getting instructions from newsgroups.. Yet it does not stick -
after a few overnight shut-offs, I get the balloon all over again and go
do the same thing, and it happens again - and I am not the only one who
has used the term "it doesn't stick". I have given in, temporarily at
least, and enabled the XP firewall.

...D.
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[David Nimon]

Run-->Services.msc

Disable Security Center.