TSGL: Spybot 1.4 Scan

[John S]

William wrote:
> .....
> Windows has an option to allow your virus protection software to monitor
> itself .....
>   
and:
> ....
> if the computer has a third party firewall that monitors itself.
>   
My issue with all this is the allowing of those notifications to be 
turned off - full stop.  The anti virus and firewall companies should be 
able to work in with Microsoft so that there cannot be any conflicts 
with the OS's 'Security Center'.  I ask, 'what if either of those third 
party products falls over or is allowed to become outdated'?  With the 
SC notifications turned off the user(s) (specially the uninitiated / 
newer user) can be oblivious to the fact that their security is 
diminishing against yesterday's threats and useless against today's and 
tomorrow's threats.
> BUT,,,, isn't the value of 0 equal to NO.... So if that's right, then these
> entries say the notifications for security center mods are NOT
> disabled?????????
In the situation at hand, for both of these registry keys the value of 0 
(zero) is OFF - which means the ability to notify the user of such 
notifications has been disabled.
In a previous post where NIS was no longer desired and un-installed, the 
un-install routine (apparently) was not designed to enable those two 
items that it had switched off when first installed.  In my mind, that's 
not a very bright situation at all.

Best... ~ John S.
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>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security
> Center\AntiVirusDisableNotify!=dword:0
>
> and
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security
> Center\FirewallDisableNotify!=dword:0