Event Viewer Warnings

[Guest]

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: WinDefend
Event Category: None
Event ID: 3004
Date: 3/14/2007
Time: 8:16:15 PM
User: N/A
Computer: ABEESGRAM-1XMYB
Description:
Windows Defender Real-Time Protection agent has detected changes. Microsoft
recommends you analyze the software that made these changes for potential
risks. You can use information about how these programs operate to choose
whether to allow them to run or remove them from your computer. Allow
changes only if you trust the program or the software publisher. Windows
Defender can't undo changes that you allow.
For more information please see the following:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=74409
Scan ID: {2F03D562-D2A1-4AF5-AD9C-2EAEA9E1D37D}
User: ABEESGRAM-1XMYB\Mary
Name: Unknown
ID:
Severity: Not Yet Classified
Category: Not Yet Classified
Path Found: service:ATWPKT2
Alert Type: Unclassified software
Detection Type:

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

These warnings drive me crazy. Went to the Http address, and found "repair"
items. I just want to read the scan, if possible, and find out what software
causes the multiple warnings I get. I know that ATWPKT2 has something to do
with AOL, but I need to know what "changes" are being made.

Thank you, fellows. If you'll tell me how to find the scan, I'll go away
and not pester for awhile. (Big grin)

Mary

 

[Guest]

These warnings drive me crazy. Went to the Http address, and found "repair"
items. I just want to read the scan, if possible, and find out what software
causes the multiple warnings I get. I know that ATWPKT2 has something to do
with AOL, but I need to know what "changes" are being made.

Mary, in these newsgroups I'm a novice, except in one area. I am an expert
on interactions between Defender and ATWPKT2!! Try doing a search on ATWPKT2
in these newsgroups and you'll find all my old posts on the topic.

ATWPKT2 is an AOL driver. I don't know what it does to upset Defender so
much, but it's perfectly harmless. I never discovered any way of eliminating
those warnings in Event viewer that you're getting now - except one:
eventually (for unrelated reasons) I changed ISPs and uninstalled the AOL
software. Truly - my advice is to just forget it.

I tried excluding the ATWPK2 file from Defender's scan (see under 'options -
just enter the file path in that box) and that stopped the alerts from
appearing in the Defender history log that I'd been getting. But I never
stopped those Event viewer warnings. Just forget 'em is my advice.

Incidentally, I now realise that AOL software may have been responsible for
an awful lot of niggling errors on my machine - at any rate, it's run a lot
more smoothly since I uninstalled it.

 

[Guest]

Try doing a search on ATWPKT2
in these newsgroups and you'll find all my old posts on the topic.

Well that's odd. I just tried doing exactly that, myself - and the search
found none of them. Why would that be, someone?

 

[Dave M]

This Newsgroup as a database is less than stellar, old posts get deleted in
what looks like random patterns, though I think that if someone marks a
specific post as helpful/answered in the browser interface that post tends
to stick around longer. There are some out there from Andy Manchesta and
Andre De Costa (hope they're both doing well) dating back to 2005. That's
not the full extent of the stick around logic though, so I'm not even going
to speculate on why others just remain immortal.

In my Outlook Express WD newsgroup database on my C: drive , I do see three
earlier posts from you last year mentioning ATWPKT2.

 

[Guest]

In my Outlook Express WD newsgroup database on my C: drive , I do see three
earlier posts from you last year mentioning ATWPKT2.

Thanks Dave. I was beginning to wonder whether I'd picked up some malware
that gave me false memory implants.

So it's a patchy kind of immortality that this newsgroup offers, then ......

 

[Paul Baker [MVP, Windows - Networking]]

Google Groups can probably search for the posts you are looking for:
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search

Paul

 

[Paul Baker [MVP, Windows - Networking]]

I guess that's a disadvantage of a private newsgroup.

Google Groups would probably be able to find the posts you're looking for if
the newsgroup were public :
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search

Paul

 

[Paul Baker [MVP, Windows - Networking]]

I guess that's a disadvantage of a private newsgroup.

Google Groups would probably be able to find the posts you're looking for if
the newsgroup were public :
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search

Paul

 

[Paul Baker [MVP, Windows - Networking]]

I guess that's a disadvantage of a private newsgroup.

Google Groups would probably be able to find the posts you're looking for if
the newsgroup were public :
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search

Paul

 

[Guest]

I guess that's a disadvantage of a private newsgroup.

Google Groups would probably be able to find the posts you're looking for if
the newsgroup were public :
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search

Thanks Paul. The posts were definitely in these Defender newsgroups, though
- so Google presumably doesn't pick them up.

(However, using Google groups, I see that ATWPKT2 tends to generate
confusion pretty well everywhere. Nice one, AOL!)

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

There is one british HTML forum that slurps (or has in the past) posts from
these groups, and probably IS Google indexed.