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Disable Security Center Alerts in Windows XP and Vista » My Digital Life
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- If you can see the Security Center shield icon in the notification area, simply double click on the icon to open Windows Security Center. Else, click on Windows Start button, select Control Panel, and then Windows Security Center.
- Click on “Change the way Security Center alerts me” link in the left pane in Windows Vista. In Windows XP, it’s located under Resources section.
- In Windows Vista, choose either “Don’t notify me, but display the icon” or “Don’t notify me and don’t display the icon” option, with later as complete disable of all Security Center Alerts.
These security concerns is relatively minor and can be safely dismissed, especially if the issue is purposely or intentionally done. In this case, the WSC Alerts icon and message can be turned off so that the system no longer will trigger notification when a problem occurred.
Microsoft: Vista feature designed to 'annoy users' | Tech News on ZDNet
Maybe this has already been addressed--I didn't read all the talkbacks--but I am curious about two things:
1. How many advanced users who disabled UAC also decided to not "opt-in" to the "customer experience" program (I know that's what I did--I opted out of the customer experience program and also disabled UAC. I doubt I'm the only power user who did that, so I doubt his stats of 88% of users using UAC are accurate); and,
2. How much malware is being blindly accepted by users (just because 7% of UAC prompts are canceled doesn't mean that only 7% of computers using UAC are being targeted by malware).
It sounds to me like his statistics are nothing more than spin designed to make Microsoft look good. I'm not saying that UAC is a bad thing (although in my opinion it could have been better implemented); I'm just saying that it sounds like we're only hearing part of the story.
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