Spyware checker

[plun]

Hi

Trendmicros Housecall seems to be working now (Beta).

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

For reference/redundant checks I think this is great.

It also checks patches !

One thing that Windowsupdate didn´t show me
was one update for viral jpg,s. MS04-28 Strange !?

It might be interessting to compare this with MSAS
and post results.

But nothing about cookies !!

 

[Andre Da Costa]

And should be used in addition to MSAS, we still need the feedback for MSAS.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Scanning, scanning--I seem to always be scanning--soon there will be Windows
jokes.........

<G>

(scanning--at least it will be better than the Panda scan--that was the
second time I've used their scan and lost the result at the end. I don't
think that will happen with Trend Micro's system which I like better.

 

[plun]

Scanning, scanning--I seem to always be scanning--soon there will be Windows
jokes.........

<G>

(scanning--at least it will be better than the Panda scan--that was the
second time I've used their scan and lost the result at the end. I don't
think that will happen with Trend Micro's system which I like better.

Its better for a user to be angry about different programs
then just to be angry about MS.....

Well, I think we have a clear tactic now, maybe ?

 

[Bill Sanderson]

OK - scan completed. Found 46 cookies, which I laboriously deleted--good
example of how NOT do design a results UI--both high threats and cookies are
mixed together, and there's no easy way to mass-check the large numbers of
cookies.

It found one "real" thing, it claimed: shopnav.d. It didn't directly
display the actual evidence found for this critter, so I looked up their
details on it, and didn't find any of the major parts of it--this doesn't
look hard to find, and I certainly didn't see the executable files mentioned
on my system. I let it remove it, but I rather suspect that this was either
a false positive of some sort, or perhaps a remnant of some kind which was
harmless.

It also claimed I'm missing MS05-009, which I haven't checked on. I'm
certain that WindowsUpdate believes that I'm up to date, so I want to double
check, perhaps by reading the KB article and manually verifying the files.

Good scanner, but I don't really think it found anything Microsoft
Antispyware hasn't with the exception of the cookies. I'm discounting the
shopnav.d finding, because I couldn't find the executables listed in their
article anywhere.

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Lets scan.