Antispyware icon in the system tray

[Dave]

The icon in the system tray needs to convey when the
Security Agent Status' Real-time protection has been
disabled.

I would like to see the context menu for the Security
Agent Status have a selection that pops up a "What this
means." or "How am I vulnerable when I disable this
setting". Perhaps a brief, disable-able balloon would
pop up indicating that A) the current state of the real-
time protection. B) what this means. C) when it is turned
back on, why MS Antispyware is cool (sell the feature).

I have also observed that the disabled state is persisted
somewhere and remains disabled after a reboot. Typical
user should probably only disable RTP to install or
troubleshoot a problem. I would like for a reboot to
turn on the RTP back on. Otherwise it could be off for
unintended length periods. Perhaps the Disable context
menu could have an option or sub-context menu for the
duration of disable. (30 min, 1 hour, 1 day, til I turn
it on)...

On a related note... The tray icon should have a
temporary disable option for downloading of updates. At
times configuring, installing, and uninstalling systems
is complicated by product downloading. Remember the days
when defrag was scheduled to go off and consume all the
CPU...

 

[Andre Da Costa]

I agree, it should turn grey or something.

 

[Guest]

On a related note, has anyone experienced the icon
turning "blue" in their tray? Mine does periodically. I
have to shut down antispyware and restart it, it goes
back to red (with a yellow center). Just curious if this
is supposed to mean something?

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Doesn't mean anything--bug.

Happens when you use Fast User Switching, Remote Desktop, or Remote
Assistance.