New ColdThunder

For those people who chose to run the MS Security Center in XP, the following information may help avoid annoying information balloons from popping up. I can not take credit for authoring this post.
The majority of this information was gathered from another site posting...

Tharcese:
The following instructions did not work in my situation, but these instructions were partially correct.

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Get rid of those Windows XP balloons that pop-up informing you that your "computer may be at risk".
Are you getting sick of the following message?
Your computer might be at risk
It may be accompanied by one of the following:
No firewall is turned on
Automatic Updates is turned off
Your virus protection is unknown
To get rid of these annoying messages, perform the following steps:
1. Go to START-->SETTINGS and CONTROL PANEL or START-->CONTROL PANEL (depends on your setup)
2. Double click AUTOMATIC UPDATES
3. On the right click CHANGE THE WAY SECURITY CENTER ALERTS ME.
4. Uncheck the boxes that you wish to disable. Uncheck all 3 to prevent this message from coming up at all in the future.
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Tharcese:
In my case steps 2 and 3 were inaccurate . The corrections were:
2. Double click Security Center
3. On the Left, under Resources, click CHANGE THE WAY SECURITY CENTER ALERTS ME.