Known Issues with Third Party Anti-spyware

[joel]

Hello MS Anti-spyware product group. Can you let us BETA
users know if there are any known conflict with other anti-
spyware applications and/or anti-virus software running on
the same PC as MS Windows Anti-spyware software?

Thank you.

 

[Otis Rivers]

-----Original Message-----
Hello MS Anti-spyware product group. Can you let us BETA
users know if there are any known conflict with other anti-
spyware applications and/or anti-virus software running on
the same PC as MS Windows Anti-spyware software?

Thank you.
.

 

[Ron Chamberlin]

Hi Joel,

None that I've heard of so far.

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP

 

[Andrew Z Carpenter]

Hello MS Anti-spyware product group. Can you let us BETA
users know if there are any known conflict with other anti-
spyware applications and/or anti-virus software running on
the same PC as MS Windows Anti-spyware software?

Thank you.

While not technically an incompatibility, MSAS is known to
detect several of Spybot's immunisations as a real spyware
product, producing a false alarm.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
While not technically an incompatibility, MSAS is known to
detect several of Spybot's immunisations as a real spyware
product, producing a false alarm.

I have also experianced this problem. And it also does
the same with some of SpywareBlaster's immunizations.

 

[Jim Nugent]

While not technically an incompatibility, MSAS is known to
detect several of Spybot's immunisations as a real spyware
product, producing a false alarm.

I had this happen to me with searchsquire.com. Spybot (or Spywareblaster)
made a registry entry to put it into the "Restricted" zone, i.e.,

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\searchsquire.com *=4.

MSAS just said OMG! Searchsquire.com! And it was ready to remove it. I guess
It needs to know some context about the registry keys in which it sees the
strings.

This can get messy. For example if a site somehow got it's domain into the
Trusted Zone (1?) you'd want to know that. For now, I can live with it,
mainly because it will expand the key. A regedit "jump to key" like Spybot
has would be nice for advanced users.