All the more reason for those with sudden, isolated ap errors to take a hard look at their anti-virus, anti-malware, anti-spyware aps. Seems to me that between virus/ spyware/ malware definition updates, an innocent WE ap could be inadvertently gunned down by a protector with an itchy trigger finger.
_____ From: Katherine Moss [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 6:30 PM To: Dave Bahr; gw-info Subject: RE: Fair warning. Well depending on what was found, VBS files are sort of subject to FP's anyway because of so many VBS/Agent and VBS/Autorun worms that are out there. From: Dave Bahr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 7:28 PM To: gw-info Subject: Re: Fair warning. Yeah, ms security is good, best to be up to date. It's not horribly accessible for me though, perhaps I'm doing something wrong. Always check where the root file is, false positives, ugh. that was a very useful and informative message, was it not? Dave C. Bahr On 3/24/2012 4:56 PM, mop wrote: Definition updates not only spot more malware but improve the elimination of false positives. Why everyone isn't running microsoft security essentials as their primary realtime and full scanner is totally beyoud me. Its free it is updated it is about as effective as anything else and is improving. It is easily configured and works great with windoweyes or and of course its free and it has a huge database of users to get samples from. skype wincric On 3/24/2012 6:47 PM, [email protected] wrote: It's an ooooold version of Ad-Aware SE, which I doubt anyone in the free world even remembers. Definitions are not even supported, but I keep it to remove MRU's on occasion. Sometimes doing that seems to unstick a sluggish computer. Last night was the first time I'd run Ad-Aware since upgrading to WE 7X, and the first time I'd ever had a problem of this kind. Just too coincidental to let that go unmentioned. If this old, broken-down spyware remover can break WE, maybe others can as well. <shrug>. I figured that people may be able to correlate a recent spyware removal with a particular Window-Eyes ap suddenly giving them grief. Remember, people. Some of the anti-virus programs have the ability to remove spyware, and, they can be configured to do that during a virus scan. Just a thought. I think it's significant that some people are receiving errors that others aren't experiencing on a given WE ap, especially when some users have mentioned errors containing the text shared object not found. From: Don S [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 5:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Fair warning. Sorry you had that problem. What spy ware removal did you use? I use malware bytes and spybot and neither one bothers we apps. Might be a good idea to let us know the name of the spy remover you have. Don If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
