I see this everytime I log onto XP. Is this like the world's best advertisement or what. "We at MicroSoft wish to thank you for buying our hopelessly unsecure product. Get over already; we have."
It is an official MS message bubble pegged to an icon in the system tray. On startup, XP now checks to see if a virus protection product has been installed. If not, it kicks this message.
Click on "Start" Menu> then "Turn off Computer"> hold down "Shift" and click on "Hibernate"... Never see it again until you must restart or shut completely down for an extended period.
Hey No Worries... it's because you installed Windows XP Service Pack 2. The first thing it'll do is to automatically turn on the Windows firewall. It'll also tell you that you may not have anti-virus software installed, which is 110% bogus no matter what it says. The third thing it'll do is warn you if there are updates you haven't installed yet. I would recommend completely disabling the firewall and anti-virus checks. The updates I would definitely keep up to date. That will solve your pop-up problems. I'll see if I can find a step by step process to do it if you can't figure it out.
I get it everytime I log in because I have my firewall turned off. Does the firewall interfere with stuff like emule and bit torrent?
DarkHorse has it right. It is amazingly annoying, comes with SP2 and is mainly a ploy by Microsoft to get you to use THEIR "security" programs instead of others'.
Ding. Ding. Ding. That is exactly when it showed up. BTW, I am not trying to get rid of the message. I think that it is amazingly clever.
I haven't installed SP2 on my own computer, but I've dealt with it plenty on others, and I know there's a way to set it to "I have a virus scanner/firewall that I will monitor myself." Then you won't get those popups.
Actually, I did that and the popups kept coming back. It only accepted my change until the next reboot. I don't even remember how I finally got rid of it for good, but it annoyed the hell out of me for quite a while.
