Two bugs detected!

[Guest]

1. Antispyware detected that a .bat file was infected with
"forabetterinternet.mypanicbutton". That file was created by me and the only
command in it was @echo off.

2. Although I'm using English Windows and English as default language, my
locale is not English. Antispyware displays unreadable characters every time
a date or time is to be displayed.

Thank you!

 

[Guest]

Hi Alex:

For # 1
Open up AntiSpywªre
Click Tools at the tºp
Click "Submit a Suspected Spyware Repºrt"
Fill out the form with as much detail so they can anªlyze quickly.

For # 2

Press Shift+Alt keys before you type the date or time.

Engel

 

[Bill Sanderson]

What was the name of the .bat file?

 

[Guest]

Ok, the name of the batch file was "addrec.bat"

As for the date problem, I'm not facing the unreadable characters problem
when I want to type something, I'm facing it everywhere Antispyware reports
something that contains dates, the latest scan date for example, or the
latest update date.

Something new. From the day I installed Antispyware, Outlook Express has
lost access to port 110. As you can understand I cannot communicate with my
email server. This needs to be fixed urgently please. We found that port
110 is not accessible any more by using telnet. Everything was working fine
with Outlook Express till the day I installed Antispyware.

Thank you!

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Thanks - I tested a batch file with the content you specified--now I'll test
one with that name as well.

The character set issue won't be fixed before beta2.

I've seen scattered reports of difficulties with Outlook--but not with
Outlook Express--which I have on many systems--50 or so--running Microsoft
Antispyware.

Is there any other software on your machine running as a mail
proxy--perhaps an antivirus or antispam app?

If you can't resolve this, I'd uninstall Beta1 and wait for beta2 to test
further. Beta2 will be out sometime in the first half of 2006.

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[Guest]

Ok, about the Outlook Express problem. It is not caused by MS Antispyware.
It's caused by Norton Internet Security 2005. Its firewall is blocking port
110. But I think this has to do with the installation of MS Antispyware.
NIS 2005 has started facing this problem and another one during system
shutdown after I installed MS antispyware. There were no problems before
that.

What are the chances that those two programs are conflicting or corrupting
each other's files? NIS 2005 does not check for spyware, so I thought I
should install MS antispyware with NIS just to have better protection. Has
this turned out to be a disaster?

Thanks again!