Vista Security Center and ESS

[tihomirjur]

I've browsed the ofrum for any advise but cant find anything related to my problem. I have ESS version 3.0.642 and Vista Ultimate. Vistas Security Center is informing me that it cant detect that my firewall is on although my ESS shows its on. I'll show screenshot below. I have tried what the message suggests but its not working meaning i dont get newer version of ESS installed. Can anyone help me here? Is downloading newer version of ESS solving the problem?

The screenshot

[Capp]

Just from what I'm seeing, the notification is that the Windows Firewall is turned off, but the ESS Firewall is enabled.

These are 2 different firewalls. You don't want both running at the same time.

If you have ESS Installed, it's advised to have the Windows Firewall off.

[Marcos]

You can either ignore the message or upgrade to v4. Vista SP1 and newer uses a new format for communicating with the Security center. Recently MS has released an update for Win Vista which somehow forced the new format not supported by v2 and v3.

[tihomirjur]

Thx for such quick reply guys. I had similar thoughts but wanted to hear second opinion.

[ronjor]

Published: 2009-07-16,
Last Updated: 2009-07-16 02:05:59 UTC
by Guy Bruneau (Version: 1)

An ISC reader wrote in about a change that occurred this month with the Windows Security Center (WSC) where Microsoft expired the grace period used by vendors to report AV, firewall or anti-spyware status to the WSC. The new WSC API used to report to the WSC was supposed to expire in September 2009. The new API is a result of an interface change introduce in Windows Vista SP1 and part of Windows 7, replacing the API that was part of Vista's original release.

Sans.....

[jf2go]

I am also experiencing this on Vista 32-bit SP1. I am not yet ready to move to v4, so I guess that I will have to turn off Windows Security Center monitoring of my Anti-Virus. This is definitely not desireable, but it looks like I don't really have any other choice.

684 works fine here, vista 32 bit sp2

strange how it works for one but not another? this was installed after sp2 and the latest updates had been installed. vista health report adds it correctly and so does security center.

[eezdva]

I had problems with the security centre. For me ESS would still show although it was already gone.


Maybe a reset of the SC might help:


Open a command prompt as administrator. (in the start menu search bar, search for 'cmd' then open this with right click 'run as administrator')
Typ the following lines in the command prompt:

net stop winmgmt
cd /d %windir%\system32\wbem
ren repository repository.old
net start winmgmt


When this works you can remove the following folder: C:\Windows\System32\wbem\repository.old (old repository folder which we renamed with the commands)

[Brambb]

I dont think that is the case here eezdva As Marcos mentioned it cause of a update in Vista which is forcing a new kind of communication between AV and the Security Centrum.

People without the problem either dont have the latest updates installed, or are using V4 of NOD32.

[eezdva]

:-) hehe ok.

This security centre stays a mystery :-)

Originally Posted by Brambb

I dont think that is the case here eezdva As Marcos mentioned it cause of a update in Vista which is forcing a new kind of communication between AV and the Security Centrum.

People without the problem either dont have the latest updates installed, or are using V4 of NOD32.

just checked all hidden updates and i seem to have them all, it is indeed a mystery..

for the record, no other security programs installed. defender and windows firewall disabled in services.
un-install v3 (684)
re-boot manually clean registry and remove eset program folder and data folder.
run jv power tools
reboot
check for updates none found.
reboot
vista security center reports no firewall, no anti virus and defender off
vista health report, says all fine but no anti-virus or anti spyware was found.


install and run v2.7
vista security center report no firewall or anti- spyware but anti viru installed and up to date.

remove install v3 smart
vista security center all green no problems
vista health report all green, no problems found on this pc.

remove install v4
vista security center all green
vista health report says no anti virus was found or anti spyware.

so what's different about my pc?
vista ultimate 32 bit sp2 last updates 14/7/09

[Brambb]

Well, I just assumed with the information posted here and elsewhere that it should affect all Vista OS and newer. Why this is not happening with your setup I cant tell! But in this other topic they don't seem to get the error (yet) either.

Nice to see your looking for a malfunction though, heh. You shouldn't worry about it, I for one have SC notification completely disabled. I rather monitor my PC myself. You might wanna try what eezdva posted earlier, it helped him with a SC problem. I see that ESET also has a KB article for it.