I have an interesting issue here. I have managed installations of Symantec Antivirus 10 running on ~200 Windows XP Professional PCs across a college campus. A few of the computers have taken to, seemingly randomly, popping up a big ugly warning “Symantec Antivirus Auto Protect is Disabled” out of the system tray.
I’ve never seen the error myself, but I’m getting enough independent reports of it to be unable to ignore the issue. Examining event logs has shown nothing out of the ordinary, but the shield icon does show autoprotect to be disabled. The systems were set up with RIPrep and have never had System Restore or anything like that run on them. I also doubt a viral infection is responsible as the systems are completely responsive in every other way.
Any ideas?