Bad Micosoft AntiSpyware(B1)/deletes personal files under Kazaa

[Guest]

So after 2 weeks of using Kazaa to share my own personally created files I
decide to delete it.

Being lazy I decide to click on remove in Microsoft AntiSpyware beta 1
instead of going to control panel to remove it.

Needless to say during the AntiSpyware removal process I happened to notice
on the screen that it was deleting everything in the "My Shared Folder".

After saying a few *&@#$(* I tried to stop it ... and found that the only
way to stop it was to kill the process in the windows task manager.

With such a well documented program as Kazaa there is no need for Microsoft
Programers to delete everything. This needs to be fixed.

Sure Kazaa type programs could be used for illegal file sharing but what
about those people who find it a great way to share legal files.

Don't get me wrong it should come up as a spyware item in the scan but the
remove option should not be so devistating.

Sigh

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Let's hope that you will be one of the last to see this issue, which has
dogged this beta since day one, over a year ago.

Microsoft has made at least one, and perhaps several adjustments to the
beta's behavior over that time to help lessen the impact on Kazaa users.
The automatic behavior in a scheduled scan has been changed to quarantine,
for example.

I've even seen precisely ONE post in these groups of a user successfully
renaming "his" files back from a situation in which Microsoft Antispyware
was quarantining the MP3's, and the user interrupted the process, thereby
rendering the program incapable of reversing that process.

I'm afraid, however, that I've yet to see anyone reverse a "delete" choice.
I don't know what happens, but disk utilities, etc, just haven't done the
job for anyone I've seen try this.