Apropos not being identified correctly

[Guest]

Ok, I'm sure some of you have heard of spyware called
Apropos.

Unfortunately for me I have software from an actual
company called Apropos (www.apropos.com). It's a call
center package so I know it's totally legitimate
software. The problem is that when I run a scan the
Apropos registry entries are being identified as spyware,
which they clearly aren't.

To me it looks like when search for the spyware called
Apropos the software is just looking for the name, and
not validating if it is the actual spyware. I hate to
think about rolling this out to my users because if it
was found and removed they wouldn't be able to answer the
phones anymore, all just because of lazy coding.

 

[Mikolaj]

Ok, I'm sure some of you have heard of spyware called

Apropos.

Unfortunately for me I have software from an actual
company called Apropos (www.apropos.com). It's a call
center package so I know it's totally legitimate
software. The problem is that when I run a scan the
Apropos registry entries are being identified as spyware,
which they clearly aren't.

To me it looks like when search for the spyware called
Apropos the software is just looking for the name, and
not validating if it is the actual spyware. I hate to
think about rolling this out to my users because if it
was found and removed they wouldn't be able to answer the
phones anymore, all just because of lazy coding.

Tell the Apropos company to contact Microsoft and report false positive.
Take a look here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892340

 

[Guest]

All of the detection purely by path or name should be
wiped out of the defintion files.