Antispyware Icon in System Tray

The MS Antispyware Icon in the system tray appears when a scan is done even
though the General settings to hide the icon is set. The only way to hide it,
is to either shutdown MSA and restart it or reboot the system. Has anyone
notice this?

Bug, but might actually be with XP not MSAS.

It might have smething to do with the XP bug relating to systray icons that
don't always show up.

If it is with MSAS then it should be fixed when Beta 2 is released, likely
sometime later this year.

Alan

"SinY" wrote:

> The MS Antispyware Icon in the system tray appears when a scan is done even
> though the General settings to hide the icon is set. The only way to hide it,
> is to either shutdown MSA and restart it or reboot the system. Has anyone
> notice this?

I am actually encountering that bug right now on XP with my volume control
icon in the notification area.
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"SinY" <SinY@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> The MS Antispyware Icon in the system tray appears when a scan is done
> even
> though the General settings to hide the icon is set. The only way to hide
> it,
> is to either shutdown MSA and restart it or reboot the system. Has anyone
> notice this?

That's one I've seen too--drives 'ya nuts!

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"Andre Da Costa" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I am actually encountering that bug right now on XP with my volume control
>icon in the notification area.
> --
> Andre
> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
> Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
> http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
> FAQ for MS AntiSpy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
>
> "SinY" <SinY@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:515E2453-43FF-4035-8F89-2151255A7EB9@microsoft.com...
>> The MS Antispyware Icon in the system tray appears when a scan is done
>> even
>> though the General settings to hide the icon is set. The only way to hide
>> it,
>> is to either shutdown MSA and restart it or reboot the system. Has anyone
>> notice this?
>
>

I wish the icon would change color or something when it finds something that needs attention.

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"Bill Sanderson" <Bill_Sanderson@msn.com.plugh.org> wrote in message
news:%23kF6ridyFHA.3184@TK2MSFTNGSA02.privatenews.microsoft.com...
That's one I've seen too--drives 'ya nuts!

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"Andre Da Costa" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I am actually encountering that bug right now on XP with my volume control
>icon in the notification area.
> --
> Andre
> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
> Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
> http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
> FAQ for MS AntiSpy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
>
> "SinY" <SinY@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:515E2453-43FF-4035-8F89-2151255A7EB9@microsoft.com...
>> The MS Antispyware Icon in the system tray appears when a scan is done
>> even
>> though the General settings to hide the icon is set. The only way to hide
>> it,
>> is to either shutdown MSA and restart it or reboot the system. Has anyone
>> notice this?
>
>

Good point--if you've told it not to display scan results, when do you ever
go look at it to see if it found anything... Let's see how this plays out
in beta2. If it doesn't give you some feedback, it might be worth
bugging--although surely turning off scan results says "I don't want
feedback?"

The trend, and I think it is a good one, is NOT to bother the human being
unless there's something they really need to do. Lots of "security" apps
promote the vendors security by nagging the user continually about how good
a job the app is doing.

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"Miles" <webmilesremove@cox.net> wrote in message
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>I wish the icon would change color or something when it finds something
>that needs attention.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> "Bill Sanderson" <Bill_Sanderson@msn.com.plugh.org> wrote in message
> news:%23kF6ridyFHA.3184@TK2MSFTNGSA02.privatenews.microsoft.com...
> That's one I've seen too--drives 'ya nuts!
>
> --
>
> "Andre Da Costa" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23ckviwbyFHA.2780@TK2MSFTNGSA02.privatenews.microsoft.com...
>>I am actually encountering that bug right now on XP with my volume control
>>icon in the notification area.
>> --
>> Andre
>> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
>> Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
>> http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
>> FAQ for MS AntiSpy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
>>
>> "SinY" <SinY@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:515E2453-43FF-4035-8F89-2151255A7EB9@microsoft.com...
>>> The MS Antispyware Icon in the system tray appears when a scan is done
>>> even
>>> though the General settings to hide the icon is set. The only way to
>>> hide
>>> it,
>>> is to either shutdown MSA and restart it or reboot the system. Has
>>> anyone
>>> notice this?
>>
>>
>
>
>

Hello Andre,

try this!

I give a workaround for all the missing things in the systray:
Go to:
C:\Windows\system32\
and look for systray.exe, right click on it and make a shortcut
from it, then move the shortcut to the common startup folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\StartMenu\Programs\Startup\

Restart the computer.

Regards >*< TOM >*<

Andre Da Costa wrote:
> I am actually encountering that bug right now on XP with my volume control
> icon in the notification area.

In that vein, I have the opposite problem: icon periodically pops up with
balloon tips saying it detected spyware, but icon has blue checkmark and
opening shows nothing detected. Running Win2K SP4.

"Bill Sanderson" wrote:

> The trend, and I think it is a good one, is NOT to bother the human being
> unless there's something they really need to do. Lots of "security" apps
> promote the vendors security by nagging the user continually about how good
> a job the app is doing.

Bear in mind when reading that any message that predates February 14, 2006
relates to the beta1 version of this program, which has little in common
with beta2.

Beta2 keeps records in the system event log--so if you can recall the time
of one of these baloon tip popups, you might check that log and see if
anything related is recorded:

right-click My Computer, choose manage
click the + in front of event viewer
click the System event log
click view, choose filter
Choose WinDefend in the dropdown for Source.

Click apply

Scroll through the messages--open any that have yellow triangles, for
sure--you may find that these events are for unknown or not yet classified
objects--they shouldn't be for known bad objects.

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"Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> In that vein, I have the opposite problem: icon periodically pops up with
> balloon tips saying it detected spyware, but icon has blue checkmark and
> opening shows nothing detected. Running Win2K SP4.
>
> "Bill Sanderson" wrote:
>
>> The trend, and I think it is a good one, is NOT to bother the human being
>> unless there's something they really need to do. Lots of "security" apps
>> promote the vendors security by nagging the user continually about how
>> good
>> a job the app is doing.
>

I am experiencing an Icon which has embedded itself in my system tray (next
to the clock) announcing several times per minute via an oft repeated "SYSTEM
ALERT" a 'need' to click onto it on order to remove a virus. So doing
conmnects to a website www.virprotect.com . No removal tool or option is
provided. Nor do they respond to repeated emails requesting information for
removal.
It appears this SYSTEM ALERT has embedded itself on my C drive in three
areas from which I cannot remove it manually. They are C:\Program Files\Virus
Protect 3.8 and also C:\Documents & Settings\All Users\Desktop also also
within its Start Menu.

Please let me know how I can remove this junk. The SYSTEM ALERT icon keeps
popping up from my system tray several times per minute during which it
blocks use of the curser until addressed (as it just did while typing this).
Any help you can provide in removing this SYSTEM ALERT icon in my system tray
along with all components related to it on my hard drive is very much
appreciated. Thanks....

jse.adam@frontiernet.net


"SinY" wrote:

> The MS Antispyware Icon in the system tray appears when a scan is done even
> though the General settings to hide the icon is set. The only way to hide it,
> is to either shutdown MSA and restart it or reboot the system. Has anyone
> notice this?