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Re: Antivirus warnings from Windows Security Center


From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () UTC EDU>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:35:56 -0400

Harry E Flowers (flowers) wrote:

I think this is the approach you need to take… Symantec AV Corporate
Edition has been incredibly weak for the last few years – with version
11, they switched to their consumer product AV engine, and the
protection is reportedly much, much better. I’d consider the warnings
for running older versions to be real, not a problem with Windows
Security Center.


Several flavors of recent malware has taken upon itself to disable
security center, or at least disable warnings. You don't want to disable
it as a general rule, that's almost helping them out...

Jeff

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