From: sharonf on
sharonf wrote:
> My son had False Alert Trojan on his computer which was detected and
> removed by Spybot. The Trojan also changed the Lan settings under IE
> which I had to go in and change. Everything is showing up clean now and
> working fine....except for Windows Security Center. It keeps showing an
> alert saying that his Virus Protection is out of date but it is not. It
> is on automatic update and a check shows that everything is up to date
> there. How to I get rid of that False alert?

This is what finally fixed the problem. I uninstalled the Virus program,
restarted the computer and then reinstalled the program again. After
applying the available updates everything is now working correctly. No
more false alerts from Windows Security Center.
From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on
Uh-huh...

sharonf wrote:
> sharonf wrote:
>> My son had False Alert Trojan on his computer which was detected and
>> removed by Spybot. The Trojan also changed the Lan settings under IE
>> which I had to go in and change. Everything is showing up clean now and
>> working fine....except for Windows Security Center. It keeps showing an
>> alert saying that his Virus Protection is out of date but it is not. It
>> is on automatic update and a check shows that everything is up to date
>> there. How to I get rid of that False alert?
>
> This is what finally fixed the problem. I uninstalled the Virus program,
> restarted the computer and then reinstalled the program again. After
> applying the available updates everything is now working correctly. No
> more false alerts from Windows Security Center.