Anti virus warning

[fudge]

For the passed few days every time i turn my computor on i get a red shield appear on bottom right of screen , with the words
Your computor might be at risk, your norton antivirus is turned off , click the balloon to rectify.
I have clicked on the balloon and then the words come up norton is switched on ok. If i dont click on the balloon the shield and words go away after a few seconds.
I have clicked on the norton to check all is working and am up to date with live updates, this has only started to happen since i did a windows update. Any idea as to why i have started getting this.

[Richy99]

its the windows security centre telling you that

if the antivirus is upto date and working then just disable the service

[fudge]

Richy99 thanks for reply , how do i dissable it. Im on windows xp
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its ok ive just found out how to on googles , thanks

open the program,click change the way security centre alerts me,untick relative boxes
but......
Chances are your virus scan is out of date,check your AV for new dat files.What Av are you using.The security centre warns if dat files are of a certain age

[Web-Junkie]

Open up Control Pannel, look for Security Centre and run it. I don't use SP2 so I'm a bit fuzzy on exactly where the setting is, but you can turn Anti Virus monitoring off.

If you use Norton AV 2004/2005, you could do a Liveupdate as that will download updates to allow Security Centre to monitor NAV's status I believe.

[Richy99]

to disable the service - go into the control panel - admin tools - services - look for security centre then right click and disable

[fudge]

All done and sorted , many thanks

But as I said it was warning you your virus definitions are out of date. I keep this warning on as in the past ive seen many AV programs stop functioning correcty and not updating. An out of date AV is more important than a little warning about it on occasion

[fudge]

My definitions are NOT out of date , this i check every day. And as i have said the warning then goes away.

[Paul K]

Sometimes Windows Security center mis-reports the status of your firewall or anti-virus. Could just be that the software isn't playing nicely together.

I missread first post and picked up mucky end of the pole ,ignore me

[fudge]

I have had to disable the warning service to stop it appearing , but as long as i check the norton is up to date each day hopefully things will be ok. As i said before its strange though as its only started after a windows update.

does this happen at boot up? It mught just be that security centre opens before norton actually starts ,quite often I find a delay in AV start up

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

does this happen at boot up? It mught just be that security centre opens before norton actually starts ,quite often I find a delay in AV start up

When I was still using norton (Before I got my audigy) I'd often get this message, which would then go away after the system had finished loading. I assumed it was because - as you say - the checker had loaded before the anti virus.

[fudge]

Yes this is on boot up , but have noticed the norton icons are at the time on the bottom right of screen and when i move the curser to them it comes up Norton internet security enabled / Norton antivirus auto protect enabled even though the warning signs say Norton is off