Security Center: Virus Protection Not Found

I've just installed Vista Ultimate and Norton Anti-Virus '07 on both my PC
and laptop.

Security Center on my desktop recognizes Norton under Malware Protection,
but it doesn't on my laptop:
"Windows did not find antivirus software on this computer."

How can I tell Vista essentially to "look again"? Norton has blended itself
seamlessly on my desktop, but I can't get Vista to recognize its existence in
either the Virus Protection section or Spyware And Other Malware Protection
on the laptop. (Norton IS running and updated on both systems.)

Same OS, same software, but two different situations. If not a front-end
fix, I assume there's a registry entry or some other back-end solution?

Thanks!

--Jeff

I have Norton 2007 too (but the Internet Security) in a laptop. It's also
recognized by Vista's WSC.
How about try to restart the service of Windows Security Center? See if
that will make it 'recheck' the status for antivirus software.


--
Regards,
Donna Buenaventura
Windows Security MVP
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b: http://msmvps.com/donna
"MSPJeff" <MSPJeff@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BBFE4D8A-3FAD-49E5-9A19-46FEF756B2B7@microsoft.com...
> I've just installed Vista Ultimate and Norton Anti-Virus '07 on both my PC
> and laptop.
>
> Security Center on my desktop recognizes Norton under Malware Protection,
> but it doesn't on my laptop:
> "Windows did not find antivirus software on this computer."
>
> How can I tell Vista essentially to "look again"? Norton has blended
> itself
> seamlessly on my desktop, but I can't get Vista to recognize its existence
> in
> either the Virus Protection section or Spyware And Other Malware
> Protection
> on the laptop. (Norton IS running and updated on both systems.)
>
> Same OS, same software, but two different situations. If not a front-end
> fix, I assume there's a registry entry or some other back-end solution?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Jeff
>

I have the same problem with my computer, I get the same messages, so I am
posting this so I could keep track of the responses.

"MSPJeff" <MSPJeff@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BBFE4D8A-3FAD-49E5-9A19-46FEF756B2B7@microsoft.com...
> I've just installed Vista Ultimate and Norton Anti-Virus '07 on both my PC
> and laptop.
>
> Security Center on my desktop recognizes Norton under Malware Protection,
> but it doesn't on my laptop:
> "Windows did not find antivirus software on this computer."
>
> How can I tell Vista essentially to "look again"? Norton has blended
> itself
> seamlessly on my desktop, but I can't get Vista to recognize its existence
> in
> either the Virus Protection section or Spyware And Other Malware
> Protection
> on the laptop. (Norton IS running and updated on both systems.)
>
> Same OS, same software, but two different situations. If not a front-end
> fix, I assume there's a registry entry or some other back-end solution?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Jeff

On Feb 11, 9:34 pm, "Octavio" <octavio...@msn.com> wrote:
> I have the same problem with my computer, I get the same messages, so I am
> posting this so I could keep track of the responses.
>
> "MSPJeff" <MSPJ...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>
> news:BBFE4D8A-3FAD-49E5-9A19-46FEF756B2B7@microsoft.com...
>
>
>
> > I've just installed Vista Ultimate and Norton Anti-Virus '07 on both my PC
> > and laptop.
>
> > Security Center on my desktop recognizes Norton under Malware Protection,
> > but it doesn't on my laptop:
> > "Windows did not find antivirus software on this computer."
>
> > How can I tell Vista essentially to "look again"? Norton has blended
> > itself
> > seamlessly on my desktop, but I can't get Vista to recognize its existence
> > in
> > either the Virus Protection section or Spyware And Other Malware
> > Protection
> > on the laptop. (Norton IS running and updated on both systems.)
>
> > Same OS, same software, but two different situations. If not a front-end
> > fix, I assume there's a registry entry or some other back-end solution?
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > --Jeff- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I am having this exact same problem. It came preinstalled on my dell,
so I have security center ignoring it right now. not sure if there is
an update to this yet or not cuz I really don't care as long as it is
running and actively blocking thigns which it is.

ISSUE: Vista not recognising antivirus program and defender won't turn on

SYMPTOMS Customer has installed Mcafee antivirus and also turned on Windows defender but when he opens up windows Vista Security center then security center is not detecting anitvirus and even windows defender it says it is off

Soultion
Step 1 Goto safe mode (may be with networking) Click on Perl and in start search box type in services.msc and then in menu right click on services and click on "run as administrator"
Step 2. Double click on "Windows Management Instrumentation" and click on STOP button and stop this service
Step 3 Goto c:\windows\system32\wbem\repository and rename the repository folder
Step 4. Then goto "Windows Management Instrumentation" and click on START button and start this service
Step 5 Restart the computer and issue will be resolved

Solution:
1. Restart windows in safe mode.
2. Delete all files in the folder C:\WINDOWS by selecting the files and then holding down the shift key while you press delete. (It may give you an error message, just keep clicking continue).

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