Security warning from SpyBot S&D

[Dave T.]

Hi all.
Did a routine spyware scan with Spybot S&D and received a report that
"Malware has the ability to make changes to Internet explorer" and that
if I am running other security software, I should "Make certain that it
is working properly"

It made note of a registry entry. Not clear whether it wants to change
this registry entry or what.


HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3918218098-1390259975-1810127645-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_LOCALMACHINE_LOCKDOWN\iexplore.exe

Someone with expertise out there to decrypt this warning?

AFAIK, Defender, Adaware, windows firewall and Avast are all functioning.

Windows Vista Home Premium (x86)

 

[Patrick Dickey]

Hi all.
Did a routine spyware scan with Spybot S&D and received a report that
"Malware has the ability to make changes to Internet explorer" and that if
I am running other security software, I should "Make certain that it is
working properly"

It made note of a registry entry. Not clear whether it wants to change
this registry entry or what.


HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3918218098-1390259975-1810127645-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_LOCALMACHINE_LOCKDOWN\iexplore.exe

Someone with expertise out there to decrypt this warning?

AFAIK, Defender, Adaware, windows firewall and Avast are all functioning.

Windows Vista Home Premium (x86)
--
Dave T.

In the 60's, people took LSD to make the world weird. Now
the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

My first guess is that SpyBot wants to immunize your PC against threats
(their "Tea Time" add-in I believe). The warning is basically telling you
that Internet Explorer is not locked down the way SpyBot would like to see
it, and if you have another program running as "Resident" (or always
monitoring), then you should use it to lock IE down.

If SpyBot is your only Antispyware (note, I didn't say Antivirus as they are
not exactly the same thing) program, you'll want to let it lock IE down. If
you have Windows Defender, SpySweeper, Ad-Aware, CounterSpy or another
Anti-spyware program that is "always monitoring" then you want to have it
lock IE down.

Hope this helps you.
Patrick.

 

[Dave T.]

My first guess is that SpyBot wants to immunize your PC against threats
(their "Tea Time" add-in I believe). The warning is basically telling
you that Internet Explorer is not locked down the way SpyBot would like
to see it, and if you have another program running as "Resident" (or
always monitoring), then you should use it to lock IE down.

If SpyBot is your only Antispyware (note, I didn't say Antivirus as they
are not exactly the same thing) program, you'll want to let it lock IE
down. If you have Windows Defender, SpySweeper, Ad-Aware, CounterSpy or
another Anti-spyware program that is "always monitoring" then you want
to have it lock IE down.

Hope this helps you.
Patrick.

Patrick, thanks for responding.

The only other real time monitoring going on is windows defender and
Avast. I use adaware 2007 free routinely, but it has no real time
monitoring, and when I run it, it finds no problems in IE. Can you
please elaborate on "Lock Down"? If you mean protected mode, it is set
as such.

 

[Dave T.]

My first guess is that SpyBot wants to immunize your PC against threats
(their "Tea Time" add-in I believe). The warning is basically telling
you that Internet Explorer is not locked down the way SpyBot would like
to see it, and if you have another program running as "Resident" (or
always monitoring), then you should use it to lock IE down.

If SpyBot is your only Antispyware (note, I didn't say Antivirus as they
are not exactly the same thing) program, you'll want to let it lock IE
down. If you have Windows Defender, SpySweeper, Ad-Aware, CounterSpy or
another Anti-spyware program that is "always monitoring" then you want
to have it lock IE down.

Hope this helps you.
Patrick.

Patrick, with a little help from my friend (Google), I answered my own
question.

New question; Is this something that most folks do? How much and what
kind of change will I expect to see in functionality during everyday use?