Could be a bug: blank etry in HKLM/Run

[Jacques]

Hi,

While revewing startup entries in MSAS, I found an old prog not fully
uninstalled (still in HKLM and startup folder). I asked MSAS to block it.
Next time I ran SpyBot-S&D it found a blank entry in HKLM/Run (suspected to
be related to AGOBOT-KU). A full scan in safe mode with MSAS and 2
differents AV didn't detect anything so I suspect a (small) side effect when
an entry is blocked.It could also be a bug in Spybot !

Running (french) XP-Home + SP2 + MS-Update
For MSAS:
Microsoft AntiSpyware Version: 1.0.615
This version expires on: 31/12/2005
Spyware Definition Version: 5745 (19/08/2005 14:35:25)

Hope that this could help

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Thanks - I haven't observed what action Microsoft Antispyware takes when it
blocks a startup entry. I would hope that it does something reasonably like
what MSCONFIG does, which shouldn't give Spybot Search & Destroy any
problems, but I've never looked at this. If it is doing something too
simplistic, I would expect Microsoft to manage the job better with beta2.