disabling the security status window from appearing on logon

This is what you want:

You want Service Center to do is display the alerts once.
Later, user may able to ignore them forever or set them as per requirement.

Here, how you can set the Alerts behavior?

Security Center service must be running and should set to Automatic.

In my case, I am running the Security Center service and it never prompts me
for risks because I have Firewall and Automatic Updates ON and I am running
Norton Antivirus 2003. But if you have the same configuration then it will
start alerting you.

There could be 2 reasons:

1. Security Center is monitoring the status of your Anti-Virus.
2. Your Virus Defination is not up to date.

What I always do is:

Update my virus defination

or

if I am unable to do is then make a check mark on "I have an antivirus
program that I'll monitor myself.....". This option is available in Security
Center by clicking on Recommendation button.


Further, if you Turn Off any of them AU or Firewall then it will again start
alerting you and there is no Recommendation for both. So, you can change the
alerting behavior. Status of every event can be configure. You can set
Security Center to display the alerts for only for particular events.

To do this:
1. Click Start - Control Panel
2. Double-click Security Center
3. On the left Side Pane click "Change the way Security Center Alerts Me."

Hope you understand the behavior of SC, let us know!

"oli" wrote:

> > According to me, there is nothing worry about as I always turn it off
> > because if everything is perfect then it still start displaying the message
> > because Virus defination of the Anti-Virus software is not update.
>
>
> I tend to agree and most probably will take this route.
>
> If the service is disabled and the user has restricted access to start
> the service, that should be adequate. All I can see with regards to the
> benefits of having the the status window appear is to tell you what you
> have / have not got in regards to AV, AU etc
>
> I suppose my real question was that there has to be a flag set to 'run
> once' for each user to notify the status of the security of that
> machine. In our environment we have AV installed and will control the
> AU and firewall via group policy so the status is irrelevant. That flag
> must be a reg file and I wouldn't mind knowing how to find that.... We
> use a snapshot tool to find out what changes on machines, ie reg file
> ini file shortcuts etc but not sure how this would help?
>
> I also read that doc sent in the first post and have done a fair amount
> of research on this behaviour and have yet to find out how to stop that
> status window appearing for each user that logs on!
>
> any other ideas?
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: disabling the security status window from appearing on logon 

This is what you want:

You want Service Center to do is display the alerts once.
Later, user may able to ignore them forever or set them as per requirement.

Here, how you can set the Alerts behavior?

Security Center service must be running and should set to Automatic.

In my case, I am running the Security Center service and it never prompts me
for risks because I have Firewall and Automatic Updates ON and I am running
Norton Antivirus 2003. But if you have the same configuration then it will
start alerting you.

There could be 2 reasons:

1. Security Center is monitoring the status of your Anti-Virus.
2. Your Virus Defination is not up to date.

What I always do is:

Update my virus defination

or

if I am unable to do is then make a check mark on "I have an antivirus
program that I'll monitor myself.....". This option is available in Security
Center by clicking on Recommendation button.


Further, if you Turn Off any of them AU or Firewall then it will again start
alerting you and there is no Recommendation for both. So, you can change the
alerting behavior. Status of every event can be configure. You can set
Security Center to display the alerts for only for particular events.

To do this:
1. Click Start - Control Panel
2. Double-click Security Center
3. On the left Side Pane click "Change the way Security Center Alerts Me."

Hope you understand the behavior of SC, let us know!

"oli" wrote:

> > According to me, there is nothing worry about as I always turn it off
> > because if everything is perfect then it still start displaying the message
> > because Virus defination of the Anti-Virus software is not update.
>
>
> I tend to agree and most probably will take this route.
>
> If the service is disabled and the user has restricted access to start
> the service, that should be adequate. All I can see with regards to the
> benefits of having the the status window appear is to tell you what you
> have / have not got in regards to AV, AU etc
>
> I suppose my real question was that there has to be a flag set to 'run
> once' for each user to notify the status of the security of that
> machine. In our environment we have AV installed and will control the
> AU and firewall via group policy so the status is irrelevant. That flag
> must be a reg file and I wouldn't mind knowing how to find that.... We
> use a snapshot tool to find out what changes on machines, ie reg file
> ini file shortcuts etc but not sure how this would help?
>
> I also read that doc sent in the first post and have done a fair amount
> of research on this behaviour and have yet to find out how to stop that
> status window appearing for each user that logs on!
>
> any other ideas?
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: disabling the security status window from appearing on logon 

This is what you want:

You want Service Center to do is display the alerts once.
Later, user may able to ignore them forever or set them as per requirement.

Here, how you can set the Alerts behavior?

Security Center service must be running and should set to Automatic.

In my case, I am running the Security Center service and it never prompts me
for risks because I have Firewall and Automatic Updates ON and I am running
Norton Antivirus 2003. But if you have the same configuration then it will
start alerting you.

There could be 2 reasons:

1. Security Center is monitoring the status of your Anti-Virus.
2. Your Virus Defination is not up to date.

What I always do is:

Update my virus defination

or

if I am unable to do is then make a check mark on "I have an antivirus
program that I'll monitor myself.....". This option is available in Security
Center by clicking on Recommendation button.


Further, if you Turn Off any of them AU or Firewall then it will again start
alerting you and there is no Recommendation for both. So, you can change the
alerting behavior. Status of every event can be configure. You can set
Security Center to display the alerts for only for particular events.

To do this:
1. Click Start - Control Panel
2. Double-click Security Center
3. On the left Side Pane click "Change the way Security Center Alerts Me."

Hope you understand the behavior of SC, let us know!

"oli" wrote:

> > According to me, there is nothing worry about as I always turn it off
> > because if everything is perfect then it still start displaying the message
> > because Virus defination of the Anti-Virus software is not update.
>
>
> I tend to agree and most probably will take this route.
>
> If the service is disabled and the user has restricted access to start
> the service, that should be adequate. All I can see with regards to the
> benefits of having the the status window appear is to tell you what you
> have / have not got in regards to AV, AU etc
>
> I suppose my real question was that there has to be a flag set to 'run
> once' for each user to notify the status of the security of that
> machine. In our environment we have AV installed and will control the
> AU and firewall via group policy so the status is irrelevant. That flag
> must be a reg file and I wouldn't mind knowing how to find that.... We
> use a snapshot tool to find out what changes on machines, ie reg file
> ini file shortcuts etc but not sure how this would help?
>
> I also read that doc sent in the first post and have done a fair amount
> of research on this behaviour and have yet to find out how to stop that
> status window appearing for each user that logs on!
>
> any other ideas?
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: disabling the security status window from appearing on logon 

This is what you want:

You want Service Center to do is display the alerts once.
Later, user may able to ignore them forever or set them as per requirement.

Here, how you can set the Alerts behavior?

Security Center service must be running and should set to Automatic.

In my case, I am running the Security Center service and it never prompts me
for risks because I have Firewall and Automatic Updates ON and I am running
Norton Antivirus 2003. But if you have the same configuration then it will
start alerting you.

There could be 2 reasons:

1. Security Center is monitoring the status of your Anti-Virus.
2. Your Virus Defination is not up to date.

What I always do is:

Update my virus defination

or

if I am unable to do is then make a check mark on "I have an antivirus
program that I'll monitor myself.....". This option is available in Security
Center by clicking on Recommendation button.


Further, if you Turn Off any of them AU or Firewall then it will again start
alerting you and there is no Recommendation for both. So, you can change the
alerting behavior. Status of every event can be configure. You can set
Security Center to display the alerts for only for particular events.

To do this:
1. Click Start - Control Panel
2. Double-click Security Center
3. On the left Side Pane click "Change the way Security Center Alerts Me."

Hope you understand the behavior of SC, let us know!

"oli" wrote:

> > According to me, there is nothing worry about as I always turn it off
> > because if everything is perfect then it still start displaying the message
> > because Virus defination of the Anti-Virus software is not update.
>
>
> I tend to agree and most probably will take this route.
>
> If the service is disabled and the user has restricted access to start
> the service, that should be adequate. All I can see with regards to the
> benefits of having the the status window appear is to tell you what you
> have / have not got in regards to AV, AU etc
>
> I suppose my real question was that there has to be a flag set to 'run
> once' for each user to notify the status of the security of that
> machine. In our environment we have AV installed and will control the
> AU and firewall via group policy so the status is irrelevant. That flag
> must be a reg file and I wouldn't mind knowing how to find that.... We
> use a snapshot tool to find out what changes on machines, ie reg file
> ini file shortcuts etc but not sure how this would help?
>
> I also read that doc sent in the first post and have done a fair amount
> of research on this behaviour and have yet to find out how to stop that
> status window appearing for each user that logs on!
>
> any other ideas?
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: disabling the security status window from appearing on logon 

This is what you want:

You want Service Center to do is display the alerts once.
Later, user may able to ignore them forever or set them as per requirement.

Here, how you can set the Alerts behavior?

Security Center service must be running and should set to Automatic.

In my case, I am running the Security Center service and it never prompts me
for risks because I have Firewall and Automatic Updates ON and I am running
Norton Antivirus 2003. But if you have the same configuration then it will
start alerting you.

There could be 2 reasons:

1. Security Center is monitoring the status of your Anti-Virus.
2. Your Virus Defination is not up to date.

What I always do is:

Update my virus defination

or

if I am unable to do is then make a check mark on "I have an antivirus
program that I'll monitor myself.....". This option is available in Security
Center by clicking on Recommendation button.


Further, if you Turn Off any of them AU or Firewall then it will again start
alerting you and there is no Recommendation for both. So, you can change the
alerting behavior. Status of every event can be configure. You can set
Security Center to display the alerts for only for particular events.

To do this:
1. Click Start - Control Panel
2. Double-click Security Center
3. On the left Side Pane click "Change the way Security Center Alerts Me."

Hope you understand the behavior of SC, let us know!

"oli" wrote:

> > According to me, there is nothing worry about as I always turn it off
> > because if everything is perfect then it still start displaying the message
> > because Virus defination of the Anti-Virus software is not update.
>
>
> I tend to agree and most probably will take this route.
>
> If the service is disabled and the user has restricted access to start
> the service, that should be adequate. All I can see with regards to the
> benefits of having the the status window appear is to tell you what you
> have / have not got in regards to AV, AU etc
>
> I suppose my real question was that there has to be a flag set to 'run
> once' for each user to notify the status of the security of that
> machine. In our environment we have AV installed and will control the
> AU and firewall via group policy so the status is irrelevant. That flag
> must be a reg file and I wouldn't mind knowing how to find that.... We
> use a snapshot tool to find out what changes on machines, ie reg file
> ini file shortcuts etc but not sure how this would help?
>
> I also read that doc sent in the first post and have done a fair amount
> of research on this behaviour and have yet to find out how to stop that
> status window appearing for each user that logs on!
>
> any other ideas?
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: disabling the security status window from appearing on logon 

This is what you want:

You want Service Center to do is display the alerts once.
Later, user may able to ignore them forever or set them as per requirement.

Here, how you can set the Alerts behavior?

Security Center service must be running and should set to Automatic.

In my case, I am running the Security Center service and it never prompts me
for risks because I have Firewall and Automatic Updates ON and I am running
Norton Antivirus 2003. But if you have the same configuration then it will
start alerting you.

There could be 2 reasons:

1. Security Center is monitoring the status of your Anti-Virus.
2. Your Virus Defination is not up to date.

What I always do is:

Update my virus defination

or

if I am unable to do is then make a check mark on "I have an antivirus
program that I'll monitor myself.....". This option is available in Security
Center by clicking on Recommendation button.


Further, if you Turn Off any of them AU or Firewall then it will again start
alerting you and there is no Recommendation for both. So, you can change the
alerting behavior. Status of every event can be configure. You can set
Security Center to display the alerts for only for particular events.

To do this:
1. Click Start - Control Panel
2. Double-click Security Center
3. On the left Side Pane click "Change the way Security Center Alerts Me."

Hope you understand the behavior of SC, let us know!

"oli" wrote:

> > According to me, there is nothing worry about as I always turn it off
> > because if everything is perfect then it still start displaying the message
> > because Virus defination of the Anti-Virus software is not update.
>
>
> I tend to agree and most probably will take this route.
>
> If the service is disabled and the user has restricted access to start
> the service, that should be adequate. All I can see with regards to the
> benefits of having the the status window appear is to tell you what you
> have / have not got in regards to AV, AU etc
>
> I suppose my real question was that there has to be a flag set to 'run
> once' for each user to notify the status of the security of that
> machine. In our environment we have AV installed and will control the
> AU and firewall via group policy so the status is irrelevant. That flag
> must be a reg file and I wouldn't mind knowing how to find that.... We
> use a snapshot tool to find out what changes on machines, ie reg file
> ini file shortcuts etc but not sure how this would help?
>
> I also read that doc sent in the first post and have done a fair amount
> of research on this behaviour and have yet to find out how to stop that
> status window appearing for each user that logs on!
>
> any other ideas?
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: disabling the security status window from appearing on logon 

This is what you want:

You want Service Center to do is display the alerts once.
Later, user may able to ignore them forever or set them as per requirement.

Here, how you can set the Alerts behavior?

Security Center service must be running and should set to Automatic.

In my case, I am running the Security Center service and it never prompts me
for risks because I have Firewall and Automatic Updates ON and I am running
Norton Antivirus 2003. But if you have the same configuration then it will
start alerting you.

There could be 2 reasons:

1. Security Center is monitoring the status of your Anti-Virus.
2. Your Virus Defination is not up to date.

What I always do is:

Update my virus defination

or

if I am unable to do is then make a check mark on "I have an antivirus
program that I'll monitor myself.....". This option is available in Security
Center by clicking on Recommendation button.


Further, if you Turn Off any of them AU or Firewall then it will again start
alerting you and there is no Recommendation for both. So, you can change the
alerting behavior. Status of every event can be configure. You can set
Security Center to display the alerts for only for particular events.

To do this:
1. Click Start - Control Panel
2. Double-click Security Center
3. On the left Side Pane click "Change the way Security Center Alerts Me."

Hope you understand the behavior of SC, let us know!

"oli" wrote:

> > According to me, there is nothing worry about as I always turn it off
> > because if everything is perfect then it still start displaying the message
> > because Virus defination of the Anti-Virus software is not update.
>
>
> I tend to agree and most probably will take this route.
>
> If the service is disabled and the user has restricted access to start
> the service, that should be adequate. All I can see with regards to the
> benefits of having the the status window appear is to tell you what you
> have / have not got in regards to AV, AU etc
>
> I suppose my real question was that there has to be a flag set to 'run
> once' for each user to notify the status of the security of that
> machine. In our environment we have AV installed and will control the
> AU and firewall via group policy so the status is irrelevant. That flag
> must be a reg file and I wouldn't mind knowing how to find that.... We
> use a snapshot tool to find out what changes on machines, ie reg file
> ini file shortcuts etc but not sure how this would help?
>
> I also read that doc sent in the first post and have done a fair amount
> of research on this behaviour and have yet to find out how to stop that
> status window appearing for each user that logs on!
>
> any other ideas?
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: disabling the security status window from appearing on logon 

This is what you want:

You want Service Center to do is display the alerts once.
Later, user may able to ignore them forever or set them as per requirement.

Here, how you can set the Alerts behavior?

Security Center service must be running and should set to Automatic.

In my case, I am running the Security Center service and it never prompts me
for risks because I have Firewall and Automatic Updates ON and I am running
Norton Antivirus 2003. But if you have the same configuration then it will
start alerting you.

There could be 2 reasons:

1. Security Center is monitoring the status of your Anti-Virus.
2. Your Virus Defination is not up to date.

What I always do is:

Update my virus defination

or

if I am unable to do is then make a check mark on "I have an antivirus
program that I'll monitor myself.....". This option is available in Security
Center by clicking on Recommendation button.


Further, if you Turn Off any of them AU or Firewall then it will again start
alerting you and there is no Recommendation for both. So, you can change the
alerting behavior. Status of every event can be configure. You can set
Security Center to display the alerts for only for particular events.

To do this:
1. Click Start - Control Panel
2. Double-click Security Center
3. On the left Side Pane click "Change the way Security Center Alerts Me."

Hope you understand the behavior of SC, let us know!

"oli" wrote:

> > According to me, there is nothing worry about as I always turn it off
> > because if everything is perfect then it still start displaying the message
> > because Virus defination of the Anti-Virus software is not update.
>
>
> I tend to agree and most probably will take this route.
>
> If the service is disabled and the user has restricted access to start
> the service, that should be adequate. All I can see with regards to the
> benefits of having the the status window appear is to tell you what you
> have / have not got in regards to AV, AU etc
>
> I suppose my real question was that there has to be a flag set to 'run
> once' for each user to notify the status of the security of that
> machine. In our environment we have AV installed and will control the
> AU and firewall via group policy so the status is irrelevant. That flag
> must be a reg file and I wouldn't mind knowing how to find that.... We
> use a snapshot tool to find out what changes on machines, ie reg file
> ini file shortcuts etc but not sure how this would help?
>
> I also read that doc sent in the first post and have done a fair amount
> of research on this behaviour and have yet to find out how to stop that
> status window appearing for each user that logs on!
>
> any other ideas?
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: disabling the security status window from appearing on logon 

This is what you want:

You want Service Center to do is display the alerts once.
Later, user may able to ignore them forever or set them as per requirement.

Here, how you can set the Alerts behavior?

Security Center service must be running and should set to Automatic.

In my case, I am running the Security Center service and it never prompts me
for risks because I have Firewall and Automatic Updates ON and I am running
Norton Antivirus 2003. But if you have the same configuration then it will
start alerting you.

There could be 2 reasons:

1. Security Center is monitoring the status of your Anti-Virus.
2. Your Virus Defination is not up to date.

What I always do is:

Update my virus defination

or

if I am unable to do is then make a check mark on "I have an antivirus
program that I'll monitor myself.....". This option is available in Security
Center by clicking on Recommendation button.


Further, if you Turn Off any of them AU or Firewall then it will again start
alerting you and there is no Recommendation for both. So, you can change the
alerting behavior. Status of every event can be configure. You can set
Security Center to display the alerts for only for particular events.

To do this:
1. Click Start - Control Panel
2. Double-click Security Center
3. On the left Side Pane click "Change the way Security Center Alerts Me."

Hope you understand the behavior of SC, let us know!

"oli" wrote:

> > According to me, there is nothing worry about as I always turn it off
> > because if everything is perfect then it still start displaying the message
> > because Virus defination of the Anti-Virus software is not update.
>
>
> I tend to agree and most probably will take this route.
>
> If the service is disabled and the user has restricted access to start
> the service, that should be adequate. All I can see with regards to the
> benefits of having the the status window appear is to tell you what you
> have / have not got in regards to AV, AU etc
>
> I suppose my real question was that there has to be a flag set to 'run
> once' for each user to notify the status of the security of that
> machine. In our environment we have AV installed and will control the
> AU and firewall via group policy so the status is irrelevant. That flag
> must be a reg file and I wouldn't mind knowing how to find that.... We
> use a snapshot tool to find out what changes on machines, ie reg file
> ini file shortcuts etc but not sure how this would help?
>
> I also read that doc sent in the first post and have done a fair amount
> of research on this behaviour and have yet to find out how to stop that
> status window appearing for each user that logs on!
>
> any other ideas?
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: disabling the security status window from appearing on logon 

This is what you want:

You want Service Center to do is display the alerts once.
Later, user may able to ignore them forever or set them as per requirement.

Here, how you can set the Alerts behavior?

Security Center service must be running and should set to Automatic.

In my case, I am running the Security Center service and it never prompts me
for risks because I have Firewall and Automatic Updates ON and I am running
Norton Antivirus 2003. But if you have the same configuration then it will
start alerting you.

There could be 2 reasons:

1. Security Center is monitoring the status of your Anti-Virus.
2. Your Virus Defination is not up to date.

What I always do is:

Update my virus defination

or

if I am unable to do is then make a check mark on "I have an antivirus
program that I'll monitor myself.....". This option is available in Security
Center by clicking on Recommendation button.


Further, if you Turn Off any of them AU or Firewall then it will again start
alerting you and there is no Recommendation for both. So, you can change the
alerting behavior. Status of every event can be configure. You can set
Security Center to display the alerts for only for particular events.

To do this:
1. Click Start - Control Panel
2. Double-click Security Center
3. On the left Side Pane click "Change the way Security Center Alerts Me."

Hope you understand the behavior of SC, let us know!

"oli" wrote:

> > According to me, there is nothing worry about as I always turn it off
> > because if everything is perfect then it still start displaying the message
> > because Virus defination of the Anti-Virus software is not update.
>
>
> I tend to agree and most probably will take this route.
>
> If the service is disabled and the user has restricted access to start
> the service, that should be adequate. All I can see with regards to the
> benefits of having the the status window appear is to tell you what you
> have / have not got in regards to AV, AU etc
>
> I suppose my real question was that there has to be a flag set to 'run
> once' for each user to notify the status of the security of that
> machine. In our environment we have AV installed and will control the
> AU and firewall via group policy so the status is irrelevant. That flag
> must be a reg file and I wouldn't mind knowing how to find that.... We
> use a snapshot tool to find out what changes on machines, ie reg file
> ini file shortcuts etc but not sure how this would help?
>
> I also read that doc sent in the first post and have done a fair amount
> of research on this behaviour and have yet to find out how to stop that
> status window appearing for each user that logs on!
>
> any other ideas?
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: disabling the security status window from appearing on logon 

This is what you want:

You want Service Center to do is display the alerts once.
Later, user may able to ignore them forever or set them as per requirement.

Here, how you can set the Alerts behavior?

Security Center service must be running and should set to Automatic.

In my case, I am running the Security Center service and it never prompts me
for risks because I have Firewall and Automatic Updates ON and I am running
Norton Antivirus 2003. But if you have the same configuration then it will
start alerting you.

There could be 2 reasons:

1. Security Center is monitoring the status of your Anti-Virus.
2. Your Virus Defination is not up to date.

What I always do is:

Update my virus defination

or

if I am unable to do is then make a check mark on "I have an antivirus
program that I'll monitor myself.....". This option is available in Security
Center by clicking on Recommendation button.


Further, if you Turn Off any of them AU or Firewall then it will again start
alerting you and there is no Recommendation for both. So, you can change the
alerting behavior. Status of every event can be configure. You can set
Security Center to display the alerts for only for particular events.

To do this:
1. Click Start - Control Panel
2. Double-click Security Center
3. On the left Side Pane click "Change the way Security Center Alerts Me."

Hope you understand the behavior of SC, let us know!

"oli" wrote:

> > According to me, there is nothing worry about as I always turn it off
> > because if everything is perfect then it still start displaying the message
> > because Virus defination of the Anti-Virus software is not update.
>
>
> I tend to agree and most probably will take this route.
>
> If the service is disabled and the user has restricted access to start
> the service, that should be adequate. All I can see with regards to the
> benefits of having the the status window appear is to tell you what you
> have / have not got in regards to AV, AU etc
>
> I suppose my real question was that there has to be a flag set to 'run
> once' for each user to notify the status of the security of that
> machine. In our environment we have AV installed and will control the
> AU and firewall via group policy so the status is irrelevant. That flag
> must be a reg file and I wouldn't mind knowing how to find that.... We
> use a snapshot tool to find out what changes on machines, ie reg file
> ini file shortcuts etc but not sure how this would help?
>
> I also read that doc sent in the first post and have done a fair amount
> of research on this behaviour and have yet to find out how to stop that
> status window appearing for each user that logs on!
>
> any other ideas?
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: disabling the security status window from appearing on logon 

This is what you want:

You want Service Center to do is display the alerts once.
Later, user may able to ignore them forever or set them as per requirement.

Here, how you can set the Alerts behavior?

Security Center service must be running and should set to Automatic.

In my case, I am running the Security Center service and it never prompts me
for risks because I have Firewall and Automatic Updates ON and I am running
Norton Antivirus 2003. But if you have the same configuration then it will
start alerting you.

There could be 2 reasons:

1. Security Center is monitoring the status of your Anti-Virus.
2. Your Virus Defination is not up to date.

What I always do is:

Update my virus defination

or

if I am unable to do is then make a check mark on "I have an antivirus
program that I'll monitor myself.....". This option is available in Security
Center by clicking on Recommendation button.


Further, if you Turn Off any of them AU or Firewall then it will again start
alerting you and there is no Recommendation for both. So, you can change the
alerting behavior. Status of every event can be configure. You can set
Security Center to display the alerts for only for particular events.

To do this:
1. Click Start - Control Panel
2. Double-click Security Center
3. On the left Side Pane click "Change the way Security Center Alerts Me."

Hope you understand the behavior of SC, let us know!

"oli" wrote:

> > According to me, there is nothing worry about as I always turn it off
> > because if everything is perfect then it still start displaying the message
> > because Virus defination of the Anti-Virus software is not update.
>
>
> I tend to agree and most probably will take this route.
>
> If the service is disabled and the user has restricted access to start
> the service, that should be adequate. All I can see with regards to the
> benefits of having the the status window appear is to tell you what you
> have / have not got in regards to AV, AU etc
>
> I suppose my real question was that there has to be a flag set to 'run
> once' for each user to notify the status of the security of that
> machine. In our environment we have AV installed and will control the
> AU and firewall via group policy so the status is irrelevant. That flag
> must be a reg file and I wouldn't mind knowing how to find that.... We
> use a snapshot tool to find out what changes on machines, ie reg file
> ini file shortcuts etc but not sure how this would help?
>
> I also read that doc sent in the first post and have done a fair amount
> of research on this behaviour and have yet to find out how to stop that
> status window appearing for each user that logs on!
>
> any other ideas?
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: disabling the security status window from appearing on logon 

This is what you want:

You want Service Center to do is display the alerts once.
Later, user may able to ignore them forever or set them as per requirement.

Here, how you can set the Alerts behavior?

Security Center service must be running and should set to Automatic.

In my case, I am running the Security Center service and it never prompts me
for risks because I have Firewall and Automatic Updates ON and I am running
Norton Antivirus 2003. But if you have the same configuration then it will
start alerting you.

There could be 2 reasons:

1. Security Center is monitoring the status of your Anti-Virus.
2. Your Virus Defination is not up to date.

What I always do is:

Update my virus defination

or

if I am unable to do is then make a check mark on "I have an antivirus
program that I'll monitor myself.....". This option is available in Security
Center by clicking on Recommendation button.


Further, if you Turn Off any of them AU or Firewall then it will again start
alerting you and there is no Recommendation for both. So, you can change the
alerting behavior. Status of every event can be configure. You can set
Security Center to display the alerts for only for particular events.

To do this:
1. Click Start - Control Panel
2. Double-click Security Center
3. On the left Side Pane click "Change the way Security Center Alerts Me."

Hope you understand the behavior of SC, let us know!

"oli" wrote:

> > According to me, there is nothing worry about as I always turn it off
> > because if everything is perfect then it still start displaying the message
> > because Virus defination of the Anti-Virus software is not update.
>
>
> I tend to agree and most probably will take this route.
>
> If the service is disabled and the user has restricted access to start
> the service, that should be adequate. All I can see with regards to the
> benefits of having the the status window appear is to tell you what you
> have / have not got in regards to AV, AU etc
>
> I suppose my real question was that there has to be a flag set to 'run
> once' for each user to notify the status of the security of that
> machine. In our environment we have AV installed and will control the
> AU and firewall via group policy so the status is irrelevant. That flag
> must be a reg file and I wouldn't mind knowing how to find that.... We
> use a snapshot tool to find out what changes on machines, ie reg file
> ini file shortcuts etc but not sure how this would help?
>
> I also read that doc sent in the first post and have done a fair amount
> of research on this behaviour and have yet to find out how to stop that
> status window appearing for each user that logs on!
>
> any other ideas?
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: disabling the security status window from appearing on logon