It also monitors
your antivirus software, but for purely political and marketing reasons, Windows
Vista includes no antivirus functionality of its own.
There are two problems with the Windows Security Center. First, its alerts
can be particularly repetitive and annoying (this is intentional). Second, it
doesn??™t actually do that much to protect your PC (unfortunately, this is also
intentional).
Figure 7-28. The Windows Security Center goes a long way to make Windows appear
safer
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Above all, the Security Center is a monitoring tool. If it sees that a particular
feature is turned on (whether or not it??™s doing its job), the Security Center is
happy, and you won??™t see any options in that section. Otherwise, you??™ll have
the option of fixing the ???problem??? by clicking a big, friendly button (e.g.,
Turn on now). Or, to stop monitoring a specific feature, click the Show me
my available options link.
Click the Change the way Security Center alerts me link to
the left to choose what happens when the Security Center
finds a problem. To effectively turn off the Windows Security
Center (or more accurately, take away its only power),
click Don??™t notify me and don??™t display the icon here. Or, if
you feel that??™s too severe, click Don??™t notify me, but display
the icon; that way, you??™ll know if there??™s a problem, but
Security Center won??™t interrupt you to tell you. See the ???Disable
the Security Center??? sidebar, next, for another solution.
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