Tamper Protection alerts me when I run my Windows XP Mode (using the Virtual PC Function of Windows 7 Enterprise Edition) - so long as I have the option enabled to display a message when something is tampering with SEP. It says that VPC.exe is tampering with Symantec when I run VPC (it then opens VPC.exe, anyway). Is this some kind of bug or something, or is Microsoft's Virtual PC seriously trying to "tamper" with SEP? Once I turn the notification off, VPC loads fine and Symantec doesn't alert me. I'll just leave it like this, but I figured I would address it since it is a Microsoft program that causes the notification.
I also had to turn off "Block UPnP discovery from external computers" so I would not be bothered about "svchost.exe" - with SEP 11, it would only bother me about that when using the Windows Media Center Extender on an Xbox 360. With SEP 12, it bothers me about it every 10 minutes or so, and as soon as I log in to my Windows 7 user account. With the rule disabled, I get no notifications about it (which is good, for me).
EDIT: A definite small bug is when you go to edit the Active and Scheduled scans (I checked 32bit and 64bit SEP). The scan description has characters like "왰Å⬘Åorm" in place of "Perform."
In addition, I *love* that SEP now blocks "autorun.inf" from running on USB's as they get inserted. But, I'd like to know if there was a way to stop that message from displaying? I don't need to see that "autorun.inf" is blocked from running on USB's that don't even have autorun.inf on them! I'd like to only see that message if SEP actually detected "autorun.inf" on the USB. Other than that, I'd much prefer it to block it silently. The way it is now, it makes it seem like every USB is infected with "autorun.inf"
EDIT 2: Logged in today and immediately saw that SEP was scanning (the daily scheduled scan) due to seeing the scan pop up as soon as I logged in (it started the night before and I shut down the PC before the scan ended - the scan was apparently invisible as it should be since I didn't even know it was scanning last night). Is there a way to keep scans completely invisible? I don't want to ever see SEP do anything unless it detects an issue.
(And lol, sorry for suggesting so much in this post... It's just that I love SEP, and the people I know like it because you neve know it's even there - unless it finds an issue. I guess I would just like to keep it that way, as annoying pop-ups just make the product, well, annoying. If I want to see that a scan is in progress, I'll open the program up and see what it's doing. I don't need it making windows pop up that I cannot close - that's right - the only options you have when the scan pop-up appears is to pause, cancel, or minimize the window - you can't close/hide it. So, I hope my suggestions are considered. Thanks for making an awesome product.)
EDIT 3: It's been a few days and SEP still tries to scan when I log in, even though I have disabled all of the scans. I'm assuming it's because I kept canceling the scan, and it really wants to finish it. Hopefully, after I let it finish, it won't do this again when I log in tomorrow.
EDIT 4: Symantec still insists on running 2 simultaneous scans either when I log in, or after waking the computer up from being asleep - even though I have the Active Startup and the Daily scan disabled. When I check the log, these scans are listed as "Manual scans." I have just uninstalled/re-installed the program and will update you guys tomorrow on whether or not that solved my issue.
EDIT 5: Re-installing SEP and keeping the scheduled scans off from the start seem to have fixed the "2 manual scans at every login" problem I was having.