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keep getting Windows Security Center.AntiVrusOverrinde

by Slasher Dec 10, 2005 6:59PM PST

Spybot keeps coming up with that every time that I do a check. It is a registry change. Its annoying because every time I boot up windows security center tells me that I have no antivirus when I do (norton) and I have to tell it that it is running.

Does anyone know where this comes from and how to kill it for good?

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Perhaps Spybot doesn't like MS's program?

by TONI H Dec 10, 2005 7:12PM PST

Since they are competing products....

As for the Security issue and it reporting you don't have antivirus...open the Security control panel, and under the Antivirus area click the link for Recommendations, and you will see a box you can check that says 'ignore' or something to that effect. I had to do that for my ETrust Antivirus program because every visit to the Update Center would throw the RealTime Protection of ETrust out of whack and disable it. Once I told the Security control panel that I had my own and would take care of it myself, it stopped happening and the notices from MS's program stopped.

TONI

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That is Spybot telling you of

by roddy32 Dec 10, 2005 7:52PM PST

a setting in the Windows Security center that you probably set yoursef in order to let Norton notify you instead of MS if your antivirus is disabled. You need to go into the Security Center and reset what Spybot fixed and then right click on the dectection in Spybot and choose ''exclude this detection from future scans''. This thread from the Spybot forum explains it better than I can. Read the second post which is the one by SpybotSandra which explains WHY.

http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=75

The post below hers tells how to reset the setting in the Windows Security Center.

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