XP SP2 Security centre and Anti-virus

[Guest]

When I boot up my XP SP2 laptop I am getting an alert from my Security Centre
that it cannot find my Anti-Virus. The secuirty centre had recognised my
anti-virus before hand, however the secuirty centre now apprears to be the
1st thing to load. I think the reason that it is not recognising my
anti-virus is that the security centre is loading before the anti-virus. If I
stop and start the service once fully booted up the security centre
recognises my anti-virus right away.

Any ideas?

 

[Galen]

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When I boot up my XP SP2 laptop I am getting an alert from my
Security Centre that it cannot find my Anti-Virus. The secuirty
centre had recognised my anti-virus before hand, however the secuirty
centre now apprears to be the 1st thing to load. I think the reason
that it is not recognising my anti-virus is that the security centre
is loading before the anti-virus. If I stop and start the service
once fully booted up the security centre recognises my anti-virus
right away.

Any ideas?

Generally checking with the vendor of your AV application will fix that up.
They've probably found this and have fixed it.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my
declining years to the composition of a textbook which shall focus the
whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[Guest]

I am running AVG which I believe MS have a partnership with, however can find
nothing on the grisoft.com site to resolve this issue.

Does anyone know if MS have a solution?

 

[Galen]

In Johnnymc had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

I am running AVG which I believe MS have a partnership with, however
can find nothing on the grisoft.com site to resolve this issue.

Does anyone know if MS have a solution?

Not that I'm aware of. Did you go to Grisoft and grab their latest version
of AVG? (Not just the definition updates but the entire application.)

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my
declining years to the composition of a textbook which shall focus the
whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[Guest]

Tried downloading the latest version of AVG and installing after uninstalling
the previous version and now I get a message form the security centre saying
that my Anti-Virus is turned off. This no longer goes away when I stop and
start the security centre service.

 

[Galen]

In Johnnymc had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Tried downloading the latest version of AVG and installing after
uninstalling the previous version and now I get a message form the
security centre saying that my Anti-Virus is turned off. This no
longer goes away when I stop and start the security centre service.

The software vendor is the one who's meant to interact with the Microsoft
services and given the scope of third party products (no partnership that I
can see any evidence of by the way) this one is solely in the hands of AVG.
Do you - perhaps - have other software installed that could be altering the
boot time so that the service is loading prior to AVG loading? When it comes
to interacting with Microsoft software/services it is (for the most part)
fairly well defined and simple. Even with the worst case scenario if it is
loading afterwards it should only popup warning that it's gone and then it
should disappear after it's been loaded.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my
declining years to the composition of a textbook which shall focus the
whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes