SOOOO ANNOYING . . .

[Ethan Davis]

QUOTE:

"The beta Microsoft anti-spyware program gets a false
positive from Spybot Search and Destroy's immunization for
SearchSquire. When it is allowed to remove it the
immunization is lost."

It's true, it keeps picking up Spybot Search and
Destroy's Immunization for SearchSquire. Whenever
Microsoft's Anti-Spyware beta1 removes it, it is removed
from spybot's immunization window, and you must re-
imunize it. Once you immunize it again, Microsoft's anti-
spyware beta picks it up again. It is obviously a false
positive, please fix!

Thank you,
Ethan.

 

[John]

Don't remove the SearchSquire setting, just set it to ignore it.

 

[Jim Nugent]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ethan Davis" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.private.security.spyware.appcompat
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 6:33 PM
Subject: SOOOO ANNOYING . . .

QUOTE:

"The beta Microsoft anti-spyware program gets a false
positive from Spybot Search and Destroy's immunization for
SearchSquire. When it is allowed to remove it the
immunization is lost."

It's true, it keeps picking up Spybot Search and
Destroy's Immunization for SearchSquire. Whenever
Microsoft's Anti-Spyware beta1 removes it, it is removed
from spybot's immunization window, and you must re-
imunize it. Once you immunize it again, Microsoft's anti-
spyware beta picks it up again. It is obviously a false
positive, please fix!

I get that hit on every machine now a total of 4 machines (2 Win2k, two
WinXP Pro). I just set to always ignore.

The fix doesn't look simple, as in not scanning the Zone Map in the
registry. In this case Searchsquire is in the Zone Map with a value of 4
(Restricted). Suppose a bad site somehow got itself into the "Trusted" Zone
(1). You'd want to hear about it.