An Inside Look at Windows Security Center?

Answer 1

Microsoft’s Windows Security Center is a component of the Windows operating system that provides users with comprehensive protection from all of the most common security threats. Windows Security Center is not installed on all versions of Windows, but Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 all offer this service. Although Windows Security Center does not offer same level of computer protection as security programs offered by companies like Norton and McAfee, the Windows Security Center acts provides an excellent level of protection whenever a commercial security program has been disabled. Here is an inside look at the primary features of Windows Security Center and the areas in which it falls short.

Windows Security Center lets computer users monitor the security of their computer system from a control panel that provides very easy to understand indications of whether everything is operating smoothly. The control panel indicates the current states of a computer’s security by turning green when everything is protected, yellow when there is something that a computer user should be aware of and red when there is a serious problem. Windows Security Center consists of Windows Defender, Windows Firewall and Windows Updates and typically runs smoothly in the background of the operating system by running system scans and downloading updates without a computer user needing to take any action.

While Windows Security Center provides a good deal of coverage from the most major online threats that the average computer user is likely to encounter, it is also has a number of flaws. One of the most well-known flaws presented by this component of the Windows operating system is a vulnerability that allows scareware to increase the threat level indicated by Windows Security Center. Scareware is a type of malware that is designed to frighten computer users into installing a spyware program promoted as an antivirus program or to provide their credit card number to an unscrupulous software vendor. Some types of scareware are able to change the settings on Windows Security Center to indicate that there are damaging viruses that have infected the computer when the only malicious code on the computer is the scareware itself.