Aintispyware Detects my website as a hijacker

[Will Clarke]

Hello

I was wondering if anyone can tell me why my companies
community portal website, www.elkvalley.ca, has been
dtected as spyware.

My website now shows up as "Broswer hijack Attempt" with a
HIGH severity rating.

My website contains no spyware. Or advertising. It installs
2 cookies for log-on tracking. It uses the PHP-Nuke CMS, as
do thousands od website. So WHY am is it neing labled
spyware? This is a new startup website and we view this as
a serious threat to helping us get this project off the
ground. This problem could result in lost users becuae they
think we're purveyors of malicious code.

The site is a FREE website for residents of our area of
business.

If anyone can help point out a way for me to be removed
from the signatures database, or why I am in there in the
first place I would greatly apprieciate it.

Thank you
Will Clarke
Isosceles Business Systems
(e-mail address removed)
www.icomp.ca

 

[Bill Sanderson]

As far as I can tell this detection is brain-dead.

It also detects a site I relate to in the same way. In fact, Microsoft
settled a suit by a Dutch web site about this very detection.

Here's what you need to do on a given machine to get it to go away:

Tools, advanced tools browser hijack restore settings.

If this site is the intended home page--get it set into the two home page
locations you find here.

That should take care of the issue until the next time the user wishes to
change home pages.

You can also complain at:

www.spynet.com

look at the bottom of the left column for the vendor complaint form--I went
that route as well, but I'd already solved the issue by the time I had a
response and told them so. You're welcome to be more persistent!

 

[Ron Chamberlin]

Hi Will,
I just ran onto your site without any warnings showing up.


Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your help! have been in contact with MS and am
in the process of getting a solution sorted out

Seems to be a problem with changing homepages on a client's
computer (we ask them of course

The joys of beta I suppose.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Glad you are getting it sorted. The site I relate to did nothing active
whatsoever--not even cookies. It was, in fact, set as home page on a
friends machine. I advised him to install Microsoft Antispyware, and the
next thing I heard was a note to the site admin asking him why his site was
listed as a threat!