MASW vs. Pestpatrol, Adware, Spysweeper -- today's update

[Hayford Peirce]

I ran MASW this morning. I have an XP computer that's
fairly fast (2.8) and am using Mozilla Firefox instead of
IE. It took 13 min. 37 sec. and inspected 1572 "memory
processes", 41,435 files, and 8.693 registry keys. 0
spyware was found.

I then ran Pestpatrol. It took about 10 minutes. 53,806
"objects" were scanned, and 0 spyware was found. It has
been run several times since Jan. 5, which was the last
date anything was found (according to its log).

I then ran Adware Personal 6.0. It took 16 min. 19 sec.
290,336 "objects" were scanned, 1 was found, Cydoor, a
"data miner" that keeps reappearing in my Eudora folders.

I then ran Spysweeper. It took 21 min. 1 sec, confirming
my belief that it is by far the slowest of the programs.
It looked at 1,493 "memory items", 23,190 "registry items",
and 112,538 "files/folders". It found 7 items, basically
the same items that it found 4 or 5 days ago:

Casino Toolbar
Internet Optimizer
Navisearch
Purity Scan
Wild Media
Shop at Home Select
Bargain Buddy

Since none of the other programs *ever* find any of these
(at least not since I installed MASW 10 days or so ago,
which initially found dozens of them and destroyed them),
is it possible that these are "false positives" in some
way? Spysweeper *always* finds some stuff; the other three
programs *never* find anything anymore except for Cydoor.

 

[Guest]

If spysweeper found them they are probley not false
positives, but probley just some things left over as a
results of the scans... Be sure you clean out your Temp
Files IE Temp Files and cookies..

There should be instance of them in there.

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Submit any possible false positives you have found to:

http://www.spynet.com/falsepositive.aspx

Andre