Windows security centre will not recognize Avast 4.8

All of a sudden the security centre does not recognize Avast. I am using Windows XP. Any idea how to fix the problem. Security Centre is set to notify me if virus protection is not present. I have reinstalled Avast and rebooted, to no avail.

It isn’t an issue with avast but the WSC, which can be flaky at times.

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Windows XP SP2, SP3 Start, Run, type cmd and click OK from the command prompt type ‘rundll32 wbemupgd, RepairWMISetup’ without the quotes and enter.

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Windows XP SP2, SP3 Start, Run, type cmd and click OK from the command prompt type ‘rundll32 wbemupgd, RepairWMISetup’ without the quotes and enter

Tried the above but got the message: ‘error loading wbemupgd’ - ‘specific mogual could not be found’

Any ideas/help? many thanks.

this tread is 1 year old (Reply #1 on: 08 October 2009, 22:13:08 »)

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Sometimes, Windows Security Center stops recognizing your antivirus or firewall… So, check your system time and date and also http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=23457.msg193534#msg193534

See also: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/repairwmi.htm

That’s is what chumpybro tried only to get the error mentioned in his post.