Re: Disabling Windows Antivirus

There is no such thing as "Windows anti virus" and anti virus does not come with Windows.

If you already had anti virus, either you installed it or it came with the computer.

Open the Security Center and see what anti virus is installed.
ZA may be all that is listed.

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Jupiter Jones [MVP]
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"Cheryl Macomber" <camacomber@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:064e141d8b8546948deb5d0387e4b663@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I just purchased ZoneAlarm Security Suite and my confirmation email stated
this:

"If you choose to run the ZoneAlarm antivirus feature in your product,
please be sure to un-install any other antivirus product you may be running.
ZoneAlarm strongly advises against running two antivirus solutions at the
same time because significant computer performance issues, and even frequent
crashes, may occur."

I'm quite sure I enabled the Windows antivirus before I installed ZoneAlarm
because it popped up - I wasn't protected at the time (ZoneAlarm trial
version previously expired) so I thought I needed to do that. I didn't know
the above info. I need to know the path to disable the Windows antivirus.
Thank you.

.

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