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Windows Security Center/Antivirus Problem

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sharonf

Flightless Bird
For the past couple of days Windows Security Center has been sending
pop-up alerts on my husband's computer saying that his Virus Protection
is out of date. It is NOT out of date. The antivirus program (Ca
antivirus) shows the last product update as today. A virus scan comes up
clean. So does a spyware scan (Ad-Aware and Malwarebytes). Any ideas?
 
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Rich Barry

Flightless Bird
Sharon, WSC may not recognize your Antivirus program. I use Comodo and I
have the same problem. What I did was to go to
Control Panel>Security Center>Lt column - Change way Security Center
alerts me- Uncheck Antivirus.
"sharonf" <me7@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:4b4cc12a$0$29321$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com...
> For the past couple of days Windows Security Center has been sending
> pop-up alerts on my husband's computer saying that his Virus Protection is
> out of date. It is NOT out of date. The antivirus program (Ca antivirus)
> shows the last product update as today. A virus scan comes up clean. So
> does a spyware scan (Ad-Aware and Malwarebytes). Any ideas?
 
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MowGreen

Flightless Bird
sharonf wrote:

> For the past couple of days Windows Security Center has been sending
> pop-up alerts on my husband's computer saying that his Virus Protection
> is out of date. It is NOT out of date. The antivirus program (Ca
> antivirus) shows the last product update as today. A virus scan comes up
> clean. So does a spyware scan (Ad-Aware and Malwarebytes). Any ideas?



See: Security Center Not Reporting Anti-Virus or Firewall Status Correctly
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/s...ting-anti-virus-or-firewall-status-correctly/


MowGreen
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*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
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banthecheck.com
"Security updates should *never* have *non-security content* prechecked"
 
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MowGreen

Flightless Bird
sharonf wrote:

> For the past couple of days Windows Security Center has been sending
> pop-up alerts on my husband's computer saying that his Virus Protection
> is out of date. It is NOT out of date. The antivirus program (Ca
> antivirus) shows the last product update as today. A virus scan comes up
> clean. So does a spyware scan (Ad-Aware and Malwarebytes). Any ideas?


This is the link for XP, Sharon. My previous post contained the link for
Vista/Win7. Sorry about that:

Rebuilding the WMI Repository
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/repairwmi.htm


MowGreen
===============
*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
===============

banthecheck.com
"Security updates should *never* have *non-security content* prechecked"
 
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Elmo

Flightless Bird
sharonf wrote:
> For the past couple of days Windows Security Center has been sending
> pop-up alerts on my husband's computer saying that his Virus Protection
> is out-of-date. It is NOT out-of-date. The antivirus program (Ca
> antivirus) shows the last product update as today. A virus scan comes up
> clean. So does a spyware scan (Ad-Aware and Malwarebytes). Any ideas?


Check the date on his system.. if it has the wrong date, that can cause
that error.

--
Joe =o)
 
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PA Bear [MS MVP]

Flightless Bird
What did CA Support have to say when you asked them about it?

Has his CA subscription ever expired?

Has a Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on the computer
(e.g., a free-trial version that came preinstalled when you bought it)?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
www.banthecheck.com

sharonf wrote:
> For the past couple of days Windows Security Center has been sending
> pop-up alerts on my husband's computer saying that his Virus Protection
> is out of date. It is NOT out of date. The antivirus program (Ca
> antivirus) shows the last product update as today. A virus scan comes up
> clean. So does a spyware scan (Ad-Aware and Malwarebytes). Any ideas?
 
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sharonf

Flightless Bird
PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
>
> What did CA Support have to say when you asked them about it?
>
> Has his CA subscription ever expired?
>
> Has a Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on the computer
> (e.g., a free-trial version that came preinstalled when you bought it)?


No reply yet back from CA. His CA subscription has not expired. Also
no Norton or McAfee have ever been installed in his computer. He has had
this computer for a few years now and no changes have been made to his
virus program....other than updating to a new version. No version
updating has been made for quite some time.
 
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PA Bear [MS MVP]

Flightless Bird
sharonf wrote:
> PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
>> What did CA Support have to say when you asked them about it?
>>
>> Has his CA subscription ever expired?
>>
>> Has a Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on the computer
>> (e.g., a free-trial version that came preinstalled when you bought it)?

>
> No reply yet back from CA. His CA subscription has not expired. Also
> no Norton or McAfee have ever been installed in his computer. He has had
> this computer for a few years now and no changes have been made to his
> virus program....other than updating to a new version. No version
> updating has been made for quite some time.


[To keep track of things, it helps immensely if you quote all of the
previous message(s) in your replies to the newsgroup. Thank you.]

HOW TO Rebuild the Window Management Instrumentation Repository (WinXP)
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/repairwmi.htm

BONUSTip: Setting up Outlook Express to access Microsoft newsgroups
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm
 
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