Alert! - friends

[Richard Urban]

I just installed the Vista compatible version of Spy Sweeper. Avast
immediately warned of the following Trojan in Spy Sweeper:

1/29/2007 15:18:59 SYSTEM 2452 Sign of "Win32elf-BPK [Trj]" has been found
in "C:\Utility\Spy Sweeper\SpySweeperUI.exe" file.

I will try to find out if this is a false positive. I will also be reporting
the following to Webroot (Spy Sweeper) and Alwil (Avast).


--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

Thanks Richard. Please see link for solution.


http://support.webroot.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=776

Only the latest version works on Vista.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

Richard,
I too just discovered this. I decided to uninstall AVG and use Avast.
During the install I chose to do a boot scan and that is when it was
caught
by Avast. I guess it was yesterday when I updated my Spy Sweeper to the
current version. What version are you running?

Regards,
M. Todd

I just installed the Vista compatible version of Spy Sweeper. Avast
immediately warned of the following Trojan in Spy Sweeper:

1/29/2007 15:18:59 SYSTEM 2452 Sign of "Win32elf-BPK [Trj]" has been
found
in "C:\Utility\Spy Sweeper\SpySweeperUI.exe" file.

I will try to find out if this is a false positive. I will also be
reporting
the following to Webroot (Spy Sweeper) and Alwil (Avast).


--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Richard Urban]

<grin>

I excluded spysweeperui.exe from being scanned 2 days ago. It does solve for
the problem.

When Avast fixes the problem on their end, remember to remove the exclusion.
The bad guys will be trying to target that file being that it may be
excluded on peoples computers.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

Thanks Richard. Please see link for solution.


http://support.webroot.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=776

Only the latest version works on Vista.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

Richard,
I too just discovered this. I decided to uninstall AVG and use Avast.
During the install I chose to do a boot scan and that is when it was
caught
by Avast. I guess it was yesterday when I updated my Spy Sweeper to
the
current version. What version are you running?

Regards,
M. Todd

:

I just installed the Vista compatible version of Spy Sweeper. Avast
immediately warned of the following Trojan in Spy Sweeper:

1/29/2007 15:18:59 SYSTEM 2452 Sign of "Win32elf-BPK [Trj]" has been
found
in "C:\Utility\Spy Sweeper\SpySweeperUI.exe" file.

I will try to find out if this is a false positive. I will also be
reporting
the following to Webroot (Spy Sweeper) and Alwil (Avast).


--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

Great advice. Thanks again.

<grin>

I excluded spysweeperui.exe from being scanned 2 days ago. It does solve for
the problem.

When Avast fixes the problem on their end, remember to remove the exclusion.
The bad guys will be trying to target that file being that it may be
excluded on peoples computers.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

Thanks Richard. Please see link for solution.


http://support.webroot.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=776

Only the latest version works on Vista.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



Richard,
I too just discovered this. I decided to uninstall AVG and use Avast.
During the install I chose to do a boot scan and that is when it was
caught
by Avast. I guess it was yesterday when I updated my Spy Sweeper to
the
current version. What version are you running?

Regards,
M. Todd

:

I just installed the Vista compatible version of Spy Sweeper. Avast
immediately warned of the following Trojan in Spy Sweeper:

1/29/2007 15:18:59 SYSTEM 2452 Sign of "Win32elf-BPK [Trj]" has been
found
in "C:\Utility\Spy Sweeper\SpySweeperUI.exe" file.

I will try to find out if this is a false positive. I will also be
reporting
the following to Webroot (Spy Sweeper) and Alwil (Avast).


--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

I have been reading your posts. I recently bought a laptop w/vista. The tech
from circuit city hooked up my router and installed the "free" norton
security, and spysweeper. Now my system has shutdown on 3 occasions and
windows identifies the problem as being spysweeper...should I uninstall it?

Great advice. Thanks again.

<grin>

I excluded spysweeperui.exe from being scanned 2 days ago. It does solve for
the problem.

When Avast fixes the problem on their end, remember to remove the exclusion.
The bad guys will be trying to target that file being that it may be
excluded on peoples computers.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

Thanks Richard. Please see link for solution.


http://support.webroot.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=776



:

Only the latest version works on Vista.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



Richard,
I too just discovered this. I decided to uninstall AVG and use Avast.
During the install I chose to do a boot scan and that is when it was
caught
by Avast. I guess it was yesterday when I updated my Spy Sweeper to
the
current version. What version are you running?

Regards,
M. Todd

:

I just installed the Vista compatible version of Spy Sweeper. Avast
immediately warned of the following Trojan in Spy Sweeper:

1/29/2007 15:18:59 SYSTEM 2452 Sign of "Win32elf-BPK [Trj]" has been
found
in "C:\Utility\Spy Sweeper\SpySweeperUI.exe" file.

I will try to find out if this is a false positive. I will also be
reporting
the following to Webroot (Spy Sweeper) and Alwil (Avast).


--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[canixs]

I consider myself an Anti-Virus software. I really hate those virus software
stuff, it gave me more trouble than helping me prevent virus. And the big
minus is some Virus software processes really bug down the sytem.
My advice is UNINSTALL IT..

I have been reading your posts. I recently bought a laptop w/vista. The
tech
from circuit city hooked up my router and installed the "free" norton
security, and spysweeper. Now my system has shutdown on 3 occasions and
windows identifies the problem as being spysweeper...should I uninstall
it?

Great advice. Thanks again.

<grin>

I excluded spysweeperui.exe from being scanned 2 days ago. It does
solve for
the problem.

When Avast fixes the problem on their end, remember to remove the
exclusion.
The bad guys will be trying to target that file being that it may be
excluded on peoples computers.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



Thanks Richard. Please see link for solution.


http://support.webroot.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=776



:

Only the latest version works on Vista.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



Richard,
I too just discovered this. I decided to uninstall AVG and use
Avast.
During the install I chose to do a boot scan and that is when it
was
caught
by Avast. I guess it was yesterday when I updated my Spy Sweeper
to
the
current version. What version are you running?

Regards,
M. Todd

:

I just installed the Vista compatible version of Spy Sweeper.
Avast
immediately warned of the following Trojan in Spy Sweeper:

1/29/2007 15:18:59 SYSTEM 2452 Sign of "Win32elf-BPK [Trj]" has
been
found
in "C:\Utility\Spy Sweeper\SpySweeperUI.exe" file.

I will try to find out if this is a false positive. I will also
be
reporting
the following to Webroot (Spy Sweeper) and Alwil (Avast).


--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Richard G. Harper]

If Windows says that Spyware Sweeper is the app that's crashing, yes you
should uninstall it and bring this to the attention of the Circuit City
folks.

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