initial findings from running MS antispyware

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........... alpha ....................

1) It reports false positives:

searchsquire.com, this is a site added to my restricted
sites zone. MS Antispyware picks it up as a positive
infection. But it is the restricted sites zone for
protection.

2) If I select ignore against the above infection (it is
the only one) then click continue MS antispyware
continues is if removing items, It prompts to close
Explorer, then states it has removed all items. (But none
were selected for removal). The registry key is not
actually removed.

3) under startups tool it does not list bgswitch.exe as
safe. This is an old Microsoft wallpaper changer

4) MS antispyware appears not to scan zip files even when
deep scanning is selected. Does it support scanning zip
files?

5) Does MS anitspyware scan for alternate data streams?
CoolWebSearch very often infects a system by attaching as
an ADS to existing files.
 

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