Impacting other applications

[John-Francis A H]

This may be purely accidental, but under the
circumstances I though it worth putting out a warning. We
installed Antispyware on a laptop. I had a user who may
have answered 'block' to a suspicious alert.

Next time I logged on (1) Norton antivirus mail was not
working. I was advised to reinstall it on the help
screen, a bit impossible as I am currently 12,000 miles
away from my backups and install CD's (2) most internet
pages containing forms were coming up as 'unfound' in all
browsers (IE, Netscape, MyIE2 and Firefox 1) even though
I knew the pages existed (3) MSN Messenger would not
connect.

I uninstalled AntiSpyware to no avail.

I then used the Windows XP restore facility to go back a
week or two and my PC is now fine.

This may have nothing to do with AntiSpyware, but
personally I shall await a non-Beta release before
loading this application again.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

This is a beta, and as you can see, there are risks associated with that
status. FWIW, all blocking actions are logged, and the logs can be viewed:
tools, real-time protection, View all blocked events.