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| Thread ID: 30475 | 2003-02-20 21:07:00 | Spybot 1.1 picking on innocent programs? | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 122647 | 2003-02-20 21:07:00 | Hi Team On running Spybot V1.1 straight after an Adaware6 scan, I was staggered to find that it had picked up a further 67 objects. However, on looking closer I found that most were complaints about Adobe Acrobat, IE Explorer and Winzip plus a liberal sprinkling of log files. Any ideas on why it is doing this? Secondly, unlike Adaware, Spybot doesn't appear to offer the option to exclude those items from future scans though it does allow specific spyware to be allowed to remain. Have I missed some vital configuration step during setup or is this normal behaviour? I don't have a lot of experience with this program as yet. Cheers Billy 8-{) ?:| |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 122648 | 2003-02-20 22:58:00 | I noticed that too Billy when I ran Spybot for the first time the other day, certainly picked up some stuff that adaware 6 seemed to miss but thats another story. WindowWasher is like that too if you download and install the various plug in's, it will clean out the various log's in programs as well. As for a setting, I cannot see anything myself, seems to be a default sort of thing at the moment. In some ways it would be nice if you could tell it which programs to ignore or to clean out. |
Gordon. (2217) | ||
| 122649 | 2003-02-20 23:34:00 | After the scan is run usually I end up with a massive list of entries. I generally just let spybot choose for me. The top part of the list is red and is already ticked the rest of the list are in green and I ignore them. If you right click on an entry there is the option to exlude this detection from further searches. cheers |
MarkB (486) | ||
| 122650 | 2003-02-20 23:39:00 | I noticed the same thing. I let it do it's stuff anyway. There is one thing that I'm worried about between ad-aware and spybot. Going by the file sizes, one is either full of bloat or one has llots more features. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 122651 | 2003-02-20 23:40:00 | I just delete them all and have had no problems. | Danger (287) | ||
| 122652 | 2003-02-21 01:01:00 | Billy,do you mean the usage tracks?Help explains them.They can be selected not to show on a scan under Settings/File Sets/Usage Tracking & Tracks.uti. Also in Excludes/Products/Tracks uti. I have ticked all the Excludes/File Extensions as well! As I'm not sure about them,so won't scan for them. ;-) | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 122653 | 2003-02-23 01:52:00 | I installed Spybot, and ran it. Most of the myriad things it listed were essential to the programs concerned and shouldn't be removed. Running Ad-Aware soon after showed that Spy Bot itself had installed two data miners -- naturally I canned Spy Bot. Ad-Aware appears to be effective and sufficient. |
rodb (1561) | ||
| 122654 | 2003-02-23 02:05:00 | Interesting, rodb. I've been hearing a lot about spybot over the last few weeks and will check it out at some stage, but I like to get a good 'feel' for a program before I try it out. It worried me that it finds so many more programs than adaware - was adaware not as good as I thought or was if it was killing off innocent programs?? Has anyone using spybot had any problems using various (non-spyware) programs after a good old deleting session? BTW, adaware found spyware in kazaa lite - which is meant to be spyware free. Does anyone know then, Have kazaa lied (wouldn't suprise me at all), or is it an innocent file like I've recently been told? |
Bobble (3142) | ||
| 122655 | 2003-02-23 02:09:00 | There are no "innocent" programmes. They are all evil, malicious, nasty, wriggling heaps of bugs. The only good protection programme is called "FORMAT". :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 122656 | 2003-02-23 02:20:00 | *giggle* yeah, that's pretty much it really isn't it! |
Bobble (3142) | ||
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