T
Terry
Greetings,
This programme found how to remove a persistent
piece of spyware that I had unwittingly acquired. The
spyware concerned was the one that imitates the Microsoft
Update by calling itself Updates...
However, I had found that this particular annoyance used a
file called IDE21201.VXD that lurked in the System32
folder.
If you deleted that file you were only safe until after
the next re-boot. At that point it had re-generated itself
from some hidden routine! This was mosat annoying, and I
was very pleased when Microft Antispyware Beta1 removed it
properly.
However, I am puzzled as to why Microsoft's Beta1 then
goes on to declare the system clean or free of spyware
when if I then run Ad-aware or Spybot S & D immediately
after Beta1, they find four or five annoying tracking or
datamining spyware.
Can anyone tell me whether Microsoft intends to diversify
their offering, in Microsoft Antispyware Beta1, to be ble
to cover these "run-of-the-mill" spyware nuisances, too?
If anyone cares to post and answer, or send it to me at
(e-mail address removed), I would be grateful.
As Microsoft indicate that they are going to make
Microsoft Antispyware Beta1 into a commercial product
later, it would be desirable for it to be able to catch
everything that Ad-aware and Spybot S & D currently do for
FREE.
Cheers, Terry
This programme found how to remove a persistent
piece of spyware that I had unwittingly acquired. The
spyware concerned was the one that imitates the Microsoft
Update by calling itself Updates...
However, I had found that this particular annoyance used a
file called IDE21201.VXD that lurked in the System32
folder.
If you deleted that file you were only safe until after
the next re-boot. At that point it had re-generated itself
from some hidden routine! This was mosat annoying, and I
was very pleased when Microft Antispyware Beta1 removed it
properly.
However, I am puzzled as to why Microsoft's Beta1 then
goes on to declare the system clean or free of spyware
when if I then run Ad-aware or Spybot S & D immediately
after Beta1, they find four or five annoying tracking or
datamining spyware.
Can anyone tell me whether Microsoft intends to diversify
their offering, in Microsoft Antispyware Beta1, to be ble
to cover these "run-of-the-mill" spyware nuisances, too?
If anyone cares to post and answer, or send it to me at
(e-mail address removed), I would be grateful.
As Microsoft indicate that they are going to make
Microsoft Antispyware Beta1 into a commercial product
later, it would be desirable for it to be able to catch
everything that Ad-aware and Spybot S & D currently do for
FREE.
Cheers, Terry