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Re: Desktop sfw 

By: DueDillinger in CONSTITUTION | Recommend this post (1)
Sat, 11 Aug 12 12:19 AM | 74 view(s)
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Msg. 19235 of 21975
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I ran Spyzooka and it found seven 'infections'. Six tracking cookies and one trojan reference in an orphan WinRarSFX registry entry.

The tracking cookies are of no concern as they're from IE which I very rarely use. I killed the whole IE cookie folder. The latest version of Opera detects and prevents use of tracking cookies.

The 'infected' registry entry referred to a program that no longer resides on my system--part of an installation of the crappy BitDefender antivirus program I tried. It slowed my system so I uninstalled it. I guess its uninstallation didn't delete the entry. Calling a registry entry for a program that isn't on the computer an 'infection' is a bit of a stretch.

I deleted the orphan registry entry and reran Spyzooka which found no infections. This tells me that WebRoot is doing its job just fine.

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Re: Desktop sfw
By: lkorrow
in CONSTITUTION
Fri, 10 Aug 12 7:13 PM
Msg. 19228 of 21975

Last night I shut down my Internet connection and ran Webroot as I turned in. This morning it said no threats were found.

I ran Spyzooka this morning, first thing, and it found four threats -- two tracking cookies, two registry entries. The registry entries said:

W32 Worm AutoIt [Trojan Horse]
Registry

W32 Trojan-Proxy MSIL [Trojan-Proxy]
Registry SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Security Center\\UacDisableNotify

When I clicked Take Action, it says to remove W32.Worm.AutoIt to reboot and run Spyzooka in safe mode.

Guess I'll have to email Webroot, but I don't think one product ever is enough.


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