Daj said:
HI,
I ran spybot today and got two error messages:
Windows Security Center, FirewallDisableNotify
and
Windows Security Center, AntiVirusDisableNotify
Any one know what this means and is it ok to fix these two
errors in spybot? Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks, Don
Recently the makers of Spybot S & D decided to
include a feature which would report if alerts that are
generated by the Windows Security Center have been disabled. A
number of antivirus programs (McAfee, Norton, etc.) disable the
antivirus alert during installation. Unfortunately, some
spyware does this as well so an up-to-date version of Spybot
will report this behavior.
If you want to test this, do the following: run Spybot and have
it fix those two problems. Now restart your computer. At some
point during the startup process you may receive a message from
your AV program asking if you want it to stop Windows Security
center from monitoring your AV protection. Answer yes. Run
Spybot and you're going to see those errors showing up again.
If you right click on the errors in Spybot you can choose to
exclude them from future scans.
From the Spybot web site:
Why does Spybot-S&D flag changes in the Windows Security
Center?
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/faq/46.html
Here are a few threads from the Spybot forum which
discuss this issue:
Antivirus Is Off Alert, after the latest defs update
http://forums.net-integration.net/index.php?showtopic=32300
Spybot Search And Destroy 1.4, Possible Problem or false
postivie
http://forums.net-integration.net/index.php?showtopic=32260
Security Risks, Is this a false positive?
http://forums.net-integration.net/index.php?showtopic=32257
Nepatsfan
