Microsoft or Malware?

Denise_M · Dec 31, 2007

I just ran a SpyBot scan and it came up with a registry change. Microsoft.WindowSecurityCenter.AntiVirusOverride

Could this be from Microsoft or is it from our friends who like to spew virus and trojans?

I know that the attachment is very small but I couldn't make it any bigger without passing the size guidelines.

chaslang · Dec 31, 2007

This is not malware and not a problem. It is only a warning that you have change from default settings due to have another application provide your security center.

Denise_M · Jan 1, 2008

So it's ok to leave it in my pc?

DavidGP · Jan 1, 2008

Denise_M said: ↑

So it's ok to leave it in my pc?
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Yes as its just a notification warning as Chas mentions above, that the creators of Spybot added to give warning to the user that you have decided to monitor your security over letting Windows Security Centre do the job.

If you persoanally changes those setting to Monitor Yourself then you can in tell spybot to ignore that from further scans by right clicking the line and choosing "exclude this detection from future scans".

Should you change a different part of Security Centre, Spybot will notice and give you another similar message.

Denise_M · Jan 1, 2008

Hi Halo . . . I just wanted to double check, and thanks for the further explanation.

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