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    Spybot picked up something

    I'm unsure about this:


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    If you check in Control Panel / Security Center, do you have "not monitored" as the state of AV?

    By default, XP checks the state of the firewall and Automatic Updates and if there is a registered & compatible AV product.

    Some 3rd party solutions for the firewall & AV do not report their presence to Windows in a way that the Security Center can verify, so XP thinks there is none installed.

    It sounds like Spybot has looked at the registry keys for Security Center and thinks that AV detection feature has been disabled, and that is what it is warning you about.
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    Thanks, what I thought. Tis enabled and working, hasn't changed since last scanned perhaps an update on Spybot added that as something bad..... should I leave it?


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    Well, Spybot can only point at things it thinks are "wrong" based on fixed signatures or patterns, added by humans, so it can flag up false positives - when it comes to registry keys it thinks has the wrong value I don't know whether it would delete them or set them to the expected value.

    Deleting registry keys could be a dangerous pastime

    I forget if SS&D has an "ignore list" you can add items to? That might be your best bet if you're not 100% certain of whether to start changing things in the registry.
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    Cheers for that Paul,

    I think I'll leave that area. I'm happy playing in the registry but I think that looks like it could muck up either or both my AV or security centre

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    http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=av+...en-GB:official

    If that works, your av is working properly....

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    Quote Originally Posted by |SilentDeath|
    http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=av+...en-GB:official

    If that works, your av is working properly....
    Want to hear something funny?
    After setting up our mail system in my old company with a well-known brand of AV a couple of years ago, we decided to test it using the EICAR test virus - and it was delivered without a hitch instead of being blocked as we expected.

    We contacted the vendors of the AV product after testing and re-testing with no success, and they said they had deliberately ignored the EICAR test virus as they recognised it was NOT a genuine virus!
    Kind of defeats the point, we thought...
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    lol, haven't tried it yet.

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