Jethro
Both you and Dave possibly have a variation of the Smithfrad malware\Trojan. One of the characterization of this malware\Trojan is to have pop ups advising the consumer that he has no Anti Virus protection and advises as to where one can obtain one.
Follow the next 2 steps and see if this pop up gets cleared up
Do the first steps here
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...moving_Malware
Then do this
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...itfraud_Trojan
Let us know if it has helped in solving your issue
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Peter
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"JethroUK©" <reply@the.board> wrote in message news:Ka3ti.10429$rr5.400@newsfe1-win.ntli.net...
> Windows Security Center is flagging that i have no virus protection and
> shows me where to buy some - Presumably if i buy some of the 'nominated
> software' it will satify it - I can of course buy a million more and get a
> trillion for free
>
> What qualifies as 'Virus Protection'? - What is it looking for? - Apart from
> disabling it, What do I have to do to shut it up?
>
> Is it trying to sell me something?
>