SP2 Security Center Alert

[news.microsoft.com]

Back in August I got a free 1 year EZArmour subscription. I uninstalled
Norton and went with CA. The install when great. I did not install the
firewall, as I felt no need for it. Life was great until I read I had no
e-mail protection in the free version. I then went and bought 3 copies of
EZ Antivirus, and installed on my three WinXP Pro SP2 machines.

On my machine in August I tried to uninstall EZ Armour and install
EZAntivirus to no avail. Each time I tried Security Center said No
Antivirus installed. I finally gave up and stayed with EZArmour. Today I
got an e-mail about vulnerability in specific versions of eTrust EZ
Antivirus. I tried once again to remove EZArmour and add latest EZAntivirus
software. Same problem as before. The other 2 machines updated great.

I have noticed that if a restart Security Center from control
panel\administrator tools\services it will find and show the computer as
protected. However the first time I reboot the computer, back comes the
Windows Security Alert. It appears the security center service starts
before EZAntivirus kicks in. I truly feel this problem was caused by EZ
Armour not completely uninstalling correctly. Please advise me on how to
fix this, as I prefer to use EZAntivirus on all my machines. CA says its a
Security Center issue, contact Microsoft.

 

[Malke]

news.microsoft.com wrote:

(snip long history)

I have noticed that if a restart Security Center from control
panel\administrator tools\services it will find and show the computer
as protected. However the first time I reboot the computer, back
comes the Windows Security Alert. It appears the security center
service starts before EZAntivirus kicks in. I truly feel this problem
was caused by EZ

The issue is not with EZ-Armor or EZ-AV. The Security Center alerting
system is imperfect. It would be better to open the Security Center
applet in Control Panel and click on the left-hand side link that says
"change how Security Center alerts me". Uncheck the alerts for the
antivirus. The firewall that comes with EZ-Armor is superior to the one
that is built into Windows, so it would be better to use it. However,
if you decide not to use a third-party firewall, make sure your Windows
firewall is on.

Malke