Schooltech wrote:

If your PC is not connected to a domain, you see in the SP2 Security Center:
* A list of alert settings for the popup warnings
* Pop up warnings appear in the taskbar system notification area such as
"Your antivirus may be out of date."

As soon as you connect your PC to a domain, all these warnings disappear.

Microsoft in its infinite wisdom has not heard of domain users who aren't
plugged into the domain all the time, such as laptop users, or network
outages, or any other circumstance in which users of machines which are
plugged into the network might have their machines fail to continue to be
updated with automatic updates, or fail to receive antivirus updates.
(snip)

You can turn it on again with a Group Policy setting.

From a previous post by me:

If the computer is member of a domain, the Security Center is
default disabled, and you will see this entry in the Application
event log (Source: SecurityCenter, Event ID: 1807):

"The Security Center service has been stopped. It was prevented
from running by a software group policy."

For a domain computer, this is normal and by design, the Security
Center is default turned off (and you will get the message mentioned
above in the event log). There is a Group Policy setting available
if you want to turn it on (domain wide or just for your computer
using Start/Run-- gpedit.msc).

Take a look at the chapter for the Security Center in
06_CIF_Maintenance.DOC

Security Center
What settings are added or changed in Windows XP Service Pack 2?
Group Policy settings (page 26 for me)


06_CIF_Maintenance.DOC ("Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP
Service Pack 2, Part 6: Computer Maintenance") can be downloaded from he

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

Note: WinXPSP2_Documentation.zip contains all the .doc downloads...


It's a little much to expect any support from MS either for what is a new
product. There appears not to be one single security document or any useful
information on the Security Center.

In addition to the "Security Center" chapter in 06_CIF_Maintenance.DOC:

Frequently asked questions about Windows Security Center
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=883792



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