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    Nevermind. I found them. They were in the "ignore products" section.

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    Default System crash during scans

    What is up everyone!

    I am having a similar problem as Mcnudde has with windows shutting down during a virus and spyware scan. Only this time I am using a desktop and not a laptop. My fan does increase in revolutions and then after awhile my computer just shuts down and I can hear a slight hum coming from the hard drive. I recently tried Windows Safety Live scan (Beta Version) and it picks up the threats but I cannot delete them because my system crashes before the scan is complete. And spybot S&D helps out in terms of picking up some spyware but not all of it. Also I with some non pornographic web pages, I get redirected to some spyware url: http://www.pc-aid.com (or something of that nature). Lastly seems that some trojans has slipped through McAfee's firewall and its not protecting my computer as well as it should. Can anyone help me out on this one?

    Thanks and your assistance is greatly appreciated

    -Henry

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    Jumpman:

    The system shutting down sounds like it could be a heat related problem and that the system is shutting down to protect the processor. If that is the cause, the following threads may help:

    If you can't resolve the shutdown problem there are other scans listed in the following thread that may be less CPU intensive and run to completion:

    If you are able to resolve the shutdown problem and Spybot fails to remove any malware, following instructions in the above thread and then post in this forum:

    Getting an answer is one thing, learning is another.


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    MD USA

    I have followed you tip on Override problem and its sorted but one question.

    The 3 ticks in settings/control centre/rescources/change the way.../surely if I know my Zonealarm and AVG are working, why do I need ANY ticks?

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    Default RE: System Crashing

    Thanks for tip. I checked out the other forum threads and all I needed to do was dust out my computer. And it worked! Everything ran to completion. Thank you for your assistance. By the was what is the name of that cartoon character you use for your profile pic?

    -Jumpman

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    I recently ran SpyBot and got the same notifications as the subject of this thread. I wanted to add some additional information for those readers who use Norton AntiVirus (and I'm sure there is something like this for McAfee) who do not want to simply disable the notifications from SpyBot in the future.

    Once I got the notification, I followed the steps to see if the notifications were indeed disabled. Control Panel-->Security Center-->Looked under Resources on the left hand side, but noticed that the "Change the way Security Center alerts me" was grayed out. I thought for sure this was something that my AntiVirus software was disabling, so I opened Norton AntiVirus. Chose Options (located at the top) --> Norton Protection Center --> and then found the option to "Show messages from Windows Security Center". I made sure that box was checked, then I applied all the settings.

    I could then go back into the Windows Security Center, through Control Panel, and click the "Change the way Security Center alerts me". I found that indeed both the Firewall and Virus Protection alert options were disabled, so I checked both boxes.

    I then re-ran Spybot, and sure enough no more "Windows Security Center.AntiVirusDisableNotify" problems arose.

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    Default Spybot and Windows Security Center

    Quote Originally Posted by spybotsandra
    Hello,

    Since the Detections Update from July 25, 2005, Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.4 has been detecting Security Risks (renamed to "Windows Security Center" on July 30) 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.

    Best regards
    Sandra
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    In order to exclude, Windows Security Center Firewall/DisableNotify and Windows Security Center AntiVirus/DisableNotify, you must ritht click and highlight the parts listing the HKeys. otherwise the exclude this detection is not lit up. Please confirm this since I do not want to do any damage to the registry.

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    19712:

    Correct.

    From post #5 of this thread:
    http://forums.spybot.info/showpost.p...51&postcount=5

    Quote Originally Posted by md usa spybot fan
    If you want to exclude the item from future detections:
    • Expand the detection if necessary (+ to the left of the detection).
    • Select the item (entry) that you want to exclude by left clicking on it to highlight it.
    • Then right click on highlighted detection.
    • Select from the list of options in the menu.

    In other words left click to select then right click to display options. If you don't select (highlight) the item first the options menu is for the entire detection list.

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    I have just started experiencing these warnings but I think the reply was for Windows XP, i have 2000 pro and am having difficulty accessing the repair.
    Thus, the person who said:
    "If you go into Start > Control Panel > Security Center > Resources (on the left hand side of the window – expand if necessary) > click "Change the way Security Center alerts me". This brings up an "Alert Setting" window."

    I think it must be a different procedure.

    Can anyone advise, thanks?

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    Thumbs down dimmed firewall options

    i've also been having trouble with the windows security center problems in spybot. i scanned through this thread but it didn't seem to help me because my computer currently *does* have malware (SurfSideKick) and we're having some problems with that =(

    when i run spybot all 7 of the security centers come up. lately only 2 have come up, and i tried nearly everything already put on this thread. however when i got to the control panel > security center, it says that my firewall is off. when i go to recommendations and select "enable now" it says something like "We're sorry, windows security center cannot turn on the firewalls. please try to turn them on yourself by...."

    so i go back to the security center home and select "windows firewall", but heres where the problem occurs. the entire "general" tab is dimmed, so i cannot turn the firewall off.

    lastly, when i go to my registry editor, to:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center

    there are the problems, the firewall.override, etc. etc.

    i try to delete them, and they do delete, but then whenever i try to access the security center again, they pop back up in the registry editor.

    i am at wits end on what to do... any help is greatly appreciated. thanks =)

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