LongJohn
2007-12-07, 04:43
Spybot Search and Destroy wants to remove Microsoft.WindowsSecurityCenter.AntiVirusOveride. I can’t tell if it wants to remove one of the antivirus utilities that Microsoft has downloaded to my PC or if it wants to remove some malicious software that some unknown person has slipped into my computer that disables the Microsoft utility.
Should I remove it, or not?
spybotsandra
2007-12-07, 10:45
Hello,
Spybot - Search & Destroy is detecting Windows Security Center associated with Microsoft Security Center Registry changes. This is neither a false positive nor a bug. It is just an information.
Spybot-S&D only wants to bring to your attention that "someone" disabled one or more notifications in the Windows Security Center, e.g. the notifications that your virus protection is not active or not up-to-date. If you changed the settings yourself you can safely tell Spybot-S&D to exclude those detections from further scans.
In order to do so please right-click each in turn, then click "exclude this detection from future scans". That way, should any other part of security center settings change, Spybot-S&D will still detect those.
The same is true if you have another security solution installed (like McAfee Security Center or Norton Internet Security). These programs do also disable the Windows Security Center in order to take care of things themselves.
The reason why the changes are flagged by Spybot-S&D is that there are also malware programs that disable the notifications so the user doesn't take note of his security tools not being effective.
Some more information is also available in our forum:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=87
Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot