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XP Home SP3
Dell 2200 Inspiron laptop
1.25 gig
I recently (yesterday) happened to look at event viewer and noticed several error messages in the application tab which only started 9 days ago (5/20), which is odd since I’ve been using Avast for more than a year now ??? Messages read as follows:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: SecurityCenter
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1804
Description:
The Windows Security Center Service was unable to load instances of AntiVirusProduct from WMI.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Of course when I went to the link provided by Micro$haft it invariably results in confusion & frustration:
Details ID: 1804 Source: SecurityCenterWe’re sorry
There is no additional information about this issue in the Error and Event Log Messages or Knowledge Base databases at this time. You can use the links in the Support area to determine whether any additional information might be available elsewhere.Thank you for searching on this message; your search helps us identify those areas for which we need to provide more information.
A couple of hours spent researching this led me to the following links and possible fixes, none of which worked.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=23457
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1063919084
http://www.varioustopics.com/network/323963-wmi-corrupted-and-the-suggested-fix-not-working.html
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1046807120
I recently (about two weeks ago) deleted a few start-ups I had disabled by using CCleaner’s startup manager tab which coincides with the error messages in event viewer and the system is running without any noticeable problems and I am fairly confident is malware free. Since I have M$'s Security Center configured to only notify me of any problems w/ firewall and updates I was unaware of this until yesterday.
I guess my question is: Is this anything to be concerned with?