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XP SP2 Security Center QuestionHi
I told that applet that I have a firewall I'll monitor myself, but it still popups up randomly throughout the day and night telling me my computer may be at risk. I prefer managing my firewall duties with NAT router, instead of any software firewals on here. Will it continue popping up like this? |
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 Mem
join:2002-01-03
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Mem
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2004-Aug-13 9:48 am
Check your security center again - the firewall should be listed as 'not monitored'. What about the other two - antivirus and automatic updates? Do they say 'check status' (as one of them may be the cause of the notification)? |
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 capdjqToo sexy for my Shirt
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You can disable in Services under Security Centre. That's what I have done.  |
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to Mem
Hi
Yeah it was the firewall, it was mistakenly just set as off on this one, instead of not monitored, now it's not monitored, and security center red icon went away, and all is well. (I should've checked that before I even posted this new thread, but oh well I didn't think of that first) |
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Update: This morning I loaded up, after selecting I'll monitor firewall myself yesterday with Router, and it popped up Your Computer may be at risk again. Even though I told it I'll Monitor firewall myself) but it's not a big issue. I can deal with it, just wanted to post it still pops up periodally |
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 SparrowCrystal Sky
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Sparrow
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2004-Aug-14 3:57 pm
said by computerman2:
Update: This morning I loaded up, after selecting I'll monitor firewall myself yesterday with Router, and it popped up Your Computer may be at risk again. Even though I told it I'll Monitor firewall myself) but it's not a big issue. I can deal with it, just wanted to post it still pops up periodically.
Go to: Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services > scroll down to Security Center. Is the Service still running in there? You can change the Service option to Disable, Manual or Automatic. You will need to "Stop" the Service from running before you change to Manual or Disable. |
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 jazzman916Life on the Upbeat
MVM,
join:2001-09-01
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You can turn the alert off as pictured above. |
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Thanks for replying, I just went in there and unchecked Alert setting on firewall, so now it shouldn't alert me anymore, and Automatic updates and Antivirus it should alert me on if something happens to them.
Thanks for replying!!, and I'm very happy with Service Pack 2 |
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 TheJoker
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join:2001-04-26
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to capdjq
said by capdjq:
You can disable in Services under Security Centre. That's what I have done.
Didn't take too long here either to disable an applet that tells me what I already know. |
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 xeonox
join:2002-11-05
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xeonox
Member
2004-Aug-24 4:28 pm
below are a couple registry tweaks that might be useful to you:
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
;;These registry tweaks disable the bubble notifications
;;you would get in the System Tray, warning you that the
;;Windows Firewall is off, Antivirus software isn't
;;installed, or Automatic Updates is disabled
;Disable Anti-virus Notifications
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center]
"AntiVirusDisableNotify"=dword:00000001
;Disable Firewall Notifications
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center]
"FirewallDisableNotify"=dword:00000001
;Disable Automatic Updates Notifications
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center]
"UpdatesDisableNotify"=dword:00000001
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
;;Disables the Windows Security Center altogether
;;by disabling its service
;Disable Security Center
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wscsvc]
"Start"=dword:00000004
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
;;These registry tweaks overrides the Antivirus/Firewall
;;monitoring, useful if you want to monitor your own 3rd
;;party Antivirus/Firewall software which the
;;Security Center can't detect
;Override Antivirus
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center]
"AntiVirusOverride"=dword:00000001
;Override Windows Firewall
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center]
"FirewallOverride"=dword:00000001 |
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