Should I delete this...

[Flycaster]

Just ran SpyBot and it recommended removal of the following as a
security risk:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\security
center\antivirusoverride=dword:0

Should or shouldn't I remove?

Thyanks.

 

[Alias]

Just ran SpyBot and it recommended removal of the following as a security
risk:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\security
center\antivirusoverride=dword:0

Should or shouldn't I remove?

Thyanks.

Neither. Right click on it and choose don't detect this again or something
like that.

Alias

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Just ran SpyBot and it recommended removal of the following as a
security risk:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\security
center\antivirusoverride=dword:0

Should or shouldn't I remove?

No, it is not a security risk. If SpyBot is reporting it as such then it
needs to have its patterns updated. That key tells the SP2 security center
that it needs to monitor your AntiVirus software to make sure it is
properly keeping you safe by staying up-to-date with virus pattern
definitions.
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.

 

[Carl Fenley]

Just ran SpyBot and it recommended removal of the following as a security
risk:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\security
center\antivirusoverride=dword:0

Should or shouldn't I remove?

Thyanks.

--

As others have responded, this registry entry is not a problem. Spybot
probably detects this to satisfy those who compare spyware detectors by
number of "hits".

carl

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

The Spybot S&D forums explain why this is.

Tom
| | > Just ran SpyBot and it recommended removal of the following as a
security
| > risk:
| >
| > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\security
| > center\antivirusoverride=dword:0
| >
| > Should or shouldn't I remove?
| >
| > Thyanks.
| >
| > --
|
| As others have responded, this registry entry is not a problem. Spybot
| probably detects this to satisfy those who compare spyware detectors by
| number of "hits".
|
| carl
|
|

 

[Flycaster]

Just ran SpyBot and it recommended removal of the following as a
security risk:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\security
center\antivirusoverride=dword:0

Should or shouldn't I remove?

Thyanks.

Thank you all for your help. This "risk" came up just after I had
updated definitions. I run SB at least weekly, and sometime more often,
and this is the first time that this "risk" message came up. I run XP,
free AVG and free Zone Alarm...all of which are routinely updated and
run. Strange that this is the first time this "risk" came up, eh?

 

[NoStop]

After sticking his head out from his XP firewall, Tom Porterfield had this
to say:

No, it is not a security risk. If SpyBot is reporting it as such then it
needs to have its patterns updated. That key tells the SP2 security
center that it needs to monitor your AntiVirus software to make sure it is
properly keeping you safe by staying up-to-date with virus pattern
definitions.

Sounds alot like spying to me.

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they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

 

[M8RIX]

No, not strange. This detection has only been included in S&D since their
last definitions update.

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

The Spybot S&D forums explain why this happens. And it's not spying.

Tom
| After sticking his head out from his XP firewall, Tom Porterfield had this
| to say:
|
| > On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:12:11 -0400, Flycaster wrote:
| >
| >> Just ran SpyBot and it recommended removal of the following as a
| >> security risk:
| >>
| >> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\security
| >> center\antivirusoverride=dword:0
| >>
| >> Should or shouldn't I remove?
| >
| > No, it is not a security risk. If SpyBot is reporting it as such then
it
| > needs to have its patterns updated. That key tells the SP2 security
| > center that it needs to monitor your AntiVirus software to make sure it
is
| > properly keeping you safe by staying up-to-date with virus pattern
| > definitions.
|
| Sounds alot like spying to me.
|
| --
| Still running XP (The Toy Operating System eXPerience)?
| At the VERY LEAST, learn how to post to UseNet ...
| http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
| "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day
| they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge