Hi, all --
Here's something weird.
I have four anti-spyware programs on my computer. Spybot and Adaware I run
periodically. SpySweeper and Counterspy I run every day. I get sent all
kinds of crazy stuff by my clients, so I worry about this quite a lot.
A couple of days ago I got a notification that I had about a million
viruses of the "malformed archive" type in my Temp folder. McAfee couldn't
clean them, quarantine them, or delete them. I deleted the entire contents
of the Temp folder and that seemed to be OK. But since then, my Counterspy
is not finding any spyware cookies. SpyBot and AdAware find them, but they
were not loaded when the computer was exposed to the viruses. SpySweeper
now does, after I turned off the Hosts File shield to pret it again. But
Counterspy, which used to find the most of all, isn't finding anything.
Furthermore, one of the things that SpyBot found was this listing in the
registry:
Windows Security Center.AntiVirusDisableNotify and then its
registry setting and
Windows Security Center.FirewallDisableNotify and then its
registry setting.
So I think that something has disabled some of my anti-spy stuff. But I
don't know what to do about it. I've looked at all the settings, and they
all seem to be OK. Spybot says that it repaired this disable notices. I've
tried googling, but I'm not having much success, probably because I don't
know what I'm looking for.
And Counterspy still isn't finding anything.
Anyone have any ideas? What I'd like best is a site that really explains
this. I found a super one about host files, but I haven't found anything
good about this.
Best,
-- Eve
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