44 TECH ADVISOR • MARCH 2020SECURITY SPECIAL
Windows Security is accessible via the Start menu
or an icon in the system tray. It has seven sections:
Virus & threat protection, Account protection, Firewall
& network protection, App & browser control, Device
security, Device performance & health, and Family
options. The first five sections will display a green
check mark when everything is fine or a yellow alert
symbol when it’s not. Unfortunately, these alerts aren’t
always being honest. The Account protection section
alerts you when you’re using a local account and not
a Microsoft account. That means you’ll always have
a yellow check mark on the Windows Security icon in
the system tray unless you dismiss that particular alert,
which few people do. That’s unfortunate, since more
vital alerts could be ignored as the yellow alert status
just blends into the background.The Windows
Security dashboard