Interesting... I just updated Spybot and the much longer Trojan list is a
welcome improvement.

Regarding immunization, Spybot's only blocks ActiveX programs and cookies.
And that's correct for an anti-spyware program.  I would prefer file
signature checks to only be done by the AV realtime scanner, and I would
prefer my AV to have a comprehensive database of such signatures including
adware, spyware, and trojans...

On my wish-list the next version's TeaTimer:
. Monitor more registry locations for autostarting program insertion.  E.g.
Appinit_DLLs, etc.
. Fix the paging behavior (notice the number of page faults accumulated if
you're running it?)
. Fix the prompt so all of the buttons are visible...

Even Windows Defender didn't sound off when I created an Appinit_DLLs
value...   despicable.

Carl

-----Original Message-----
From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Andy Medina
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 2:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Mirar

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Wayne Johnson wrote:

> One is considered a trojan while the other is considered 
> adware & yes she needs to keep her definitions up to date. 
> Spybot could be set to run on startup & download the updates 
> automagically if they exist by checking the appropriate boxes 
> in the Settings panel.

The 10/13 updates include trojan defs. Also for Spybot to be 
effective, the system has to be "immunized" after updating the 
defs.

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