I currently have Norton Antivirus running on my PC and it is set to
Auto-protect ON. My PC is also running Windows Security Centre. Strangely the
status of my Norton Antivirus on Windows Security Centre is indicated as
"Status Unknown" and there is always an alert message ...

I am trying to restart the security centre.
right clicking the my computer icon and selecting manage then navigating to
the security centre properties.  I have selected automatic start up type and
clicked apply.  If then I click the start button to activate the security

I have a Laptop connected via Wireless and a PC connected with with the
regular cable.
I am trying to set up a small network between the 2 of them but I can not It
gives me the following message:"\\Laptop is not accessible.  You might not

I work for a company and we installed Windows XP 3 years ago with no service
packs and now the PC's that havent been upgraded with Service Packs 1 or 2
have started to ask for Windows to be activated again, even though this was
done 3 years ago.  Does anyone know why this has ...

Downloaded an anti-virus program (Symantec Norton System Works 2005)
found I did not like it then uninstalled the program. Now each time
open any program I get a box titles "Run As" with the followin
message: "Which user account do you want to use" It has two radi

I'm trying to manually "lock down" a limited WinXP Pro users account.
I need to know how to apply the following restrictions in the Registry
(or some other method):
No Control Panel

would someone please tell me,why do i have 69 e-mail in my inbox,which is
mostly adds and selling junk,when i have all this spywear installed on my pc.
Ad-awear Personal ,Microsoft Spywera /Beta,spywearblasster,spybot surch and
destroy,anonnimizer,secretmaker,IC spywear,Phishguard ...

We need to add 3 port exceptions to all machines on our network running xp sp2.
We will do this using group policy. Before we can do this we need to get a
listing of all the port exceptions for each of these machines(around 500). We
will need to add this list to our group policy ...

I just re-installed IE and since then have been getting the
"Open File: Security Warning" messages for most programs
I try to run (local ones, NOT downloads).
I did disable this before, but have forgotten how to. Googling for

I should want to get advice about the necessity to use another firewall than
the SP2 firewall :
Is the SP2 firewall sufficient or is it better to install another one, like
these provided by the companies wich provide Antivirus ?

Is it possible using windows XP home edition to set it up so when children
are using it they cant right click on the desktop and get access to the
properties menu to change the settings.

On my computer I keep getting 'security messages' telling me that my computer
may be open to attack and then proceeds to give an email address inviting me
to scan my computer eg. helpfixpc.com. I get on average 1 message per minute.
I have installed Sybot, pop up stopper, spyware ...

I knew how to do this once, but forgot, not having done it for a long time.
With XP Pro machine not in a domain, how does one switch between Home-style
logon of clicking user-name buttons, to dialog-style of typing in user name &
password, with or without Ctrl-Alt-Del? I need to ...

It started this morning with a Trojan horse. That was picked up by Spybot
S&D, then I ran Adaware, and made sure AVG was updated and ran that.
Interestingly, AVG did NOT pick up the Trojan.  Spybot and Ad Aware both did.
I don't trust AVG any more! Got rid of the Trojan (I ...

I have been having a problem with a game I recently brought which refuses to
run as it keeps giving me a message stating that I have a debugger running.
After a lot of discussion with the games newsgroup we have potentially
narrowed it down to the fact that I have a process ...