MS Spyware vs. Symantec Antivirus

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MS Spyware gives us a startup message that its anti-virus module isn't
loaded. Further the next screen says we need to make sure we have an
anti-virus program running. So I follow the instructions and check that we
have an anti-virus program.
We do; we have Symantec/Norton AntiVirus running.
Then when I run AdAware, it reports that a feature of MS Spyware has been
"turned off", referring to the MS Spyware anti-virus module.
My question is, why doesn't MS Spyware recognize the Symantec AntiVirus and
log that in its setup; without scaring me.
Thanks in advance for helping this novice user.
 
Mike - lets go through this again--I think there's some confusion here.

Microsoft Antispyware doesn't have an antivirus nor does it connect to the
security center.

Some product is reporting, I suspect, that the Security Center setting to
monitor your Antivirus has been turned off. This is probably
correct--Symantec recommends that you do this, and you probably took their
recommendation.

The product that is scaring you is the one making that report. You mention
Ad-aware. You didn't mention Spybot Search & Destroy. I had thought that
it was Spybot Search & Destroy that monitors this security center setting,
and doesn't give very useful guidance about its findings, but perhaps I'm
mistaken?
 
Bill,
Thanks for your reply. You were on the mark; I was mistaken. The software
that reported the setting was Spybot Search & Destroy. I'm not a technical
person and sometimes confuse the issues.
However, I'm sure there was a MS Spyware question that said it couldn't
determine if my computer was protected by an AntiVirus product. I just
looked around MS Spyware but couldn't find the item. I know that if I tell
Spybot to fix the issue, that message will come up again in MS SpyWare.
Your assurance that I did what should be done is comforting for this novice.
Regards,
Mike at Atwood Lake, Ohio
 
There may well be an interaction between some choices in Spybot Search &
Destroy, and Microsoft Antispyware.

If you spot that again, and can detail what it is in Spybot Search & Destroy
that elicits a message from Microsoft Antispyware, we can say more about
it--or at least replicate it ourselves..

One area that can be confusing is that if you tell Spybot Search & Destroy
to (innoculate)--not sure of their terminology --it will fill your hosts
file with references equating your local host IP address (127.0.0.1) to
"bad" sites. If you then look at the hosts file using the system explorers
in Microsoft Antispyware, you may be dismayed at finding all thes "bad"
sites listed.

Don't worry about it--it is as the feature is designed in Spybot Search &
destroy, and it works. It is a mechanism that highly skilled and
knowledgable people differ about--but it works.

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