SP2 Security Centre Loses Settings

[Mark]

I have installed SP2 and set the Windows Firewall "off" as
I have Sygate Pro installed. I have set the security
centre not to monitor the firewall and have also set it
not to alert me about the firewall being off. However
every 3 or 4 reboots it forgets these settings and starts
to nag me about the firewall being turned off!

Anybody else seeing these symptoms or know what the
problem is.

TIA

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

I have installed SP2 and set the Windows Firewall "off" as
I have Sygate Pro installed. I have set the security
centre not to monitor the firewall and have also set it
not to alert me about the firewall being off. However
every 3 or 4 reboots it forgets these settings and starts
to nag me about the firewall being turned off!

Anybody else seeing these symptoms or know what the
problem is.

Hi

Control Panel/Security Center, click on the "Change the Way Security
Center Notifies Me" link in the left pane.


If that doesn't stick when you reboot, you can do the following:


Someone in another newsgroup thread indicated that a Symantec service
was the cause for this behavior on his computer (I can't remember in
what newsgroup though).

To "solve" this problem, you can disable the Security Center service:


Start/Run --> services.msc

Find "Security Center" in the list, double click on it, set
"Startup type" to Disabled.


There is also a Group Policy setting available to disable the
Security Center (Start/Run--> gpedit.msc).

Take a look at the chapter for the Security Center in
06_CIF_Maintenance.DOC

What settings are added or changed in Windows XP Service Pack 2?
Group Policy settings (page 26 for me)


06_CIF_Maintenance.DOC ("Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP
Service Pack 2, Part 6: Computer Maintenance") can be downloaded from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...d7-b791-40b6-8364-685b84158c78&DisplayLang=en

Note: WinXPSP2_Documentation.zip contains all the .doc downloads...

 

[Guest]

Thanks I have tried "Change the way the security centre
notifies me" but will look at you other suggestions as I
do have Symantec Norton AV.

Cheers

 

[Nero]

I had that and turned off Windows firewall in services.
That cured it.

 

[Nero]

Nothin to do with Norton, it's to do with windows firewall in services.
Turn it off and then you not get the"re setting itself"
I had the same problem and now I do not after doing what I said above

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

When I open this Control Panel, the "Change the Way..." link is grey and
disabled.

Hi

Is this a computer that is joined to a domain?

From a previous post by me:

If the computer is member of a domain, the Security Center is
default disabled, and you will see this entry in the Application
event log (Source: SecurityCenter, Event ID: 1807):

"The Security Center service has been stopped. It was prevented
from running by a software group policy."

For a domain computer, this is normal and by design, the Security
Center is default turned off (and you will get the message mentioned
above in the event log). There is a Group Policy setting available
if you want to turn it on (domain wide or just for your computer
using Start/Run--> gpedit.msc).

Take a look at the chapter for the Security Center in
06_CIF_Maintenance.DOC

Security Center
What settings are added or changed in Windows XP Service Pack 2?
Group Policy settings (page 26 for me)


06_CIF_Maintenance.DOC ("Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP
Service Pack 2, Part 6: Computer Maintenance") can be downloaded from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...d7-b791-40b6-8364-685b84158c78&DisplayLang=en

Note: WinXPSP2_Documentation.zip contains all the .doc downloads...

 

[Alan]

Nothin to do with Norton, it's to do with windows firewall in services.
Turn it off and then you not get the"re setting itself"
I had the same problem and now I do not after doing what I said above

Me too. The only way to turn off the alert was to change the
setting in Services. Clearly a software bug.