Dear Joe, @28-Jun-2006, 16:07 -0400 (28-Jun 21:07 here) Joe [J] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
J> A "false positive" normally connotes imprecise calibration. What's imprecise J> here? A false positive does not mean that at all. "False" as in wrong, bad or incorrect. "Positive" as in passed test or (in this case) detection. It is an incorrect detection. Trend has fouled up. Badly. In the real world Trend would be sued for defamation, but in the soft world there is no such thing. A shame. (Not quite where you got "imprecise calibration" as a definition there....). J> The details on the culprit (found in the Registry) read: J> HKU\S-1-5-21-3126995848-1559877500-2177672217-1005-SOFTWARE\RIT\THEBAT!\ Perfect. The registry key TB uses for its own private GUID. Why on earth should Trend take any notice? The only spying going on here is by Trend. Having and using a registry key for configuration and setup data is certainly no indication of malware. Yes, some malware uses the registry. So does a lot of other (probably most) software. Some joker has told trend that this registry key is an indication of malware infection. Tosh. J> Why would Trend mistake only The Bat! (out of all the other J> programs on my computer) as "spyware"? Because for some reason (currently known only to the programmers at Trend) they have decided to add this key to their list of "baddies". It is a mistake. It is incorrect. J> I've added this item to the Trend "whitelist," and The Bat! runs J> just fine now. Good. That should solve the problem for now. Somebody needs to give Trend a good kicking though. J> However, I'm still uncomfortable with the idea that The Bat! may be J> spying on me. Your discomfort is entirely unnecessary. The Bat! does not spy. Never has. Never will. Nor does The Bat! collaborate with spies and goes out of its way to ensure it never will. Trend has alarmed you for no reason whatsoever. J> Could someone please try to do a better job of comforting me? Is this helping? J> Maybe it's not Trend's problem? It is .. 100%. They are wrong .. 100%. J> Couldn't it be something that The Bat! is doing, that it shouldn't J> be doing? No. TB is perfectly entitled (like any and indeed most other applications) to store configuration data in the system registry. I hope that you are suitably reassured by this. I do recommend that you now contact Trend and make twice the amount of noise there as you have here, since the fault is all theirs. You can even copy the text of this message to them if you feel it may help. At least their support service is getting paid to offer advice, unlike us poor souls here! -- Cheers -- //.arck D Pearlstone -- List moderator and fellow end user TB! v3.81.04 on Windows XP 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 '
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