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From: Judy Zappacosta on 15 Jul 2010 22:44
I turned off my AVG and was surprised to see a warning from Windows that my
anti-virus program was turned off.

How does Windows know that it's an anti-virus program that I turned off?

Is there a special thing that an anti-virus program does to "register" as
an anti-virus program?
From: dadiOH on 16 Jul 2010 08:35
Judy Zappacosta wrote:
> I turned off my AVG and was surprised to see a warning from Windows
> that my anti-virus program was turned off.
>
> How does Windows know that it's an anti-virus program that I turned
> off?

The AV program ratted itself out to Windows.

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From: pooky on 16 Jul 2010 10:38
"dadiOH" <dadiOH(a)invalid.com> wrote in news:dmY%n.119550$U%
7.39549(a)hurricane:

> Judy Zappacosta wrote:
>> I turned off my AVG and was surprised to see a warning from
Windows
>> that my anti-virus program was turned off.
>>
>> How does Windows know that it's an anti-virus program that I
turned
>> off?
>
> The AV program ratted itself out to Windows.
>
I prefer to think of it as throwing the annoying dog a bone so
he'll shut the hell up.
From: Judy Zappacosta on 16 Jul 2010 22:29
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:38:01 -0500, pooky wrote:
>> The AV program ratted itself out to Windows.
> I prefer to think of it as throwing the annoying dog a bone

So, to summarize, is it that there is a "special" key that is available to
anti-virus programs which, if they use that special key, Windows knows
about them being on or off?
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