AVG and SP2

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A couple of days ago installed SP2. No problems. I did as was told by the
Microsoft site and disabled my anti-virus for the install. After the reboot
it started again. Everything ok except recieved a message from the Security
Center asking me if I had an anti-virus. I said yes and the Security Center
said that the program was not being monitored and that I'd have to monitor
it. No great problem.
My son installed SP2 on his computer last night. I didn't have a chance to
talk to him first so he didn't know about turning off the anti-virus for
the install. He installed it with his anti-virus on. No problems but his
system DOES see his anti-virus and it IS being monitored. We are both using
AVG anti-virus. So is turning off your anti-virus a mistake and not
intended by the SP2 programers but only tacked on after because SOME anti-
virus programs caused problems?
 
Slartybartfast said:
A couple of days ago installed SP2. No problems. I did as was told by
the Microsoft site and disabled my anti-virus for the install. After
the reboot it started again. Everything ok except recieved a message
from the Security Center asking me if I had an anti-virus. I said yes
and the Security Center said that the program was not being monitored
and that I'd have to monitor it. No great problem.
My son installed SP2 on his computer last night. I didn't have a
chance to talk to him first so he didn't know about turning off the
anti-virus for the install. He installed it with his anti-virus on.
No problems but his system DOES see his anti-virus and it IS being
monitored. We are both using AVG anti-virus. So is turning off your
anti-virus a mistake and not intended by the SP2 programers but only
tacked on after because SOME anti- virus programs caused problems?
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No. The version of AVG running on his system has been patched to work with
the SP2 security centre. Yours has not been patched.

Whether your virus scanner was on, off, or encased in jelly and nailed to
the ceiling during the SP2 install doesn't matter here.
Rob
MS MVP
 
No. The version of AVG running on his system has been patched to work
with the SP2 security centre. Yours has not been patched.

Whether your virus scanner was on, off, or encased in jelly and nailed
to the ceiling during the SP2 install doesn't matter here.
Rob
MS MVP
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No it's not that. I have the latest updates and I checked on the AVG site.
The SP2 patch on AVG is included with the regular anti-virus updates which
is the most recent on my machine.
 
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