Re: Disabling "Security Center" alerts for Stand-Alone PCs

From: Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam_at_hydro.com)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:19:21 +0100

Javier J wrote:

> I've got a few XP SP2 pc "under my hand". They're laptops that are
> _not_ part of a domain.
>
> All of them have AV software installed, and it updates itself whenever
> they go online, but it¡s a PITA (and a scare for users) when they
> start getting the "you computer might be in danger - AV is not
> updated" messages. THe users might not go online for some time (even a
> couple of weeks in some cases), so the message is there to stay for a
> while..
>
> I'd like to remove those warnings. I've (manually) disabled the alerts
> using the Security Center, but they sometimes "reapear"!!! (I used the
> local Administrator account, and I disabled alerts for Firewall and
> AV, but to no effect.
>
> I was wondering if there is some way to use a LOCAL policy to disable
> those alerts, or maybe some scripting that would do the same, and that
> could be applied to more than on PC (it's much easier to "doble click"
> an .vbs file each time I install on a new PC than to go to control
> panel, etc...)
Hi

I would have just disabled the Security Center service:

sc.exe config wscsvc start= disabled 

-- 
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx

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