Hi,
Although SEP is meant to load at system start-up, is there a way to turn it off permanently so it doesn't get enabled after rebooting? It was loaded onto a number of Windows XP (and one Windows Server 2008) boxes to be used in a secure environment due to Information Assurance requirements. However, since this network isn't connected to the internet it isn't necessary to have it continually scanning for viruses since they could only be introduced by portable media such as disks or jump drives. We'd like to keep it loaded on these boxes so we can occasionally check for viruses after loading new software applications or copying over new files,but don't want it enabled for periodic scanning since it interferes with our simulations and occasionally locks them up when both try to access the same files. We've been manually disabling these computers one by one, but have to do this every time they are rebooted which get tedious considering there are 10 computers with SEP loaded on them.
In short, is there an easy solution for this short of uninstalling SEP?