Windows XP x64 - Security Center

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Just downloaded and installed the latest WindowsXP x64 edition (build 3790, Service Pack 1 v. 1289), and installed Avast! Home 4.5.561 from the website. Only other things on this Windows installation are Firefox 1.0, Thunderbird 1.0, Trillian 3.0, Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator CS, Acrobat 6 Pro, Acrobat Reader 7, MS Office and Stardock CursorXP .

Antivirus is running fine, scanned the machine and it was clean. But the Windows Security Center doesn’t detect any antivirus installed. I have searched the forums, and don’t see anything about Security Center issues in x64. I would assume that for the most part, the securyty cetner is the same as XP SP2…what’s going on here? Any ideas? ???

BTW, this is a FRESH install, not a repair install or anything. So what I have listed here is all that is installed. No upgrades from Norton or anything, clean as a whistle.

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Have you tried a repair of Avast?
Have you uninstalled (using the util from the website) and reinstalled Avast?

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Actually we’ll have to test if it works under Win64 (I doubt we’ve done it already as we have the machines in a domain and in this configuration, the whole Security Center is disabled).

It should definitely work under regular (32-bit) XP SP2 though.

Thanks
Vlk

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I have the same problem running 1289. It was ok in 1218 the previous version of XP x64. :slight_smile:

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Good.
Slightly off-topic: does the previous OS build have to be removed or can it be updated to the latest version?

Thanks
Vlk

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I did a fresh install. Some people say it can be updated but as it is beta I think a fresh install is best. :slight_smile: