Summary
Learn how pop-up notifications of WFBS works in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
Details
In Windows 8 and 2012, the entire Desktop works like an application. In this case, visibility of WFBS pop-ups becomes limited.
To make sure that you see important notifications, WFBS uses toast notifications in Windows 8.
A toast notification is a rectangular message box that appears on the upper-right corner of Windows 8 when specific events are triggered. This message lingers for 7 seconds. When you click a toast notification, the Desktop will open. It serves as prompt when actions are required from the user as shown below:
WFBS sends toast notifications through the PccNTMon process when it wants to do the following:
- Client wants to pop up a threat dialog on desktop to show detections:
- Virus detection
- Spyware detection
- Web Reputation detection
- Behavior Monitoring detection
- Device Access Control detection
- Firewall detection
- Client needs a reboot to finish the installation/upgrade
