Beta killed my CD & DVD Drivers

[HumbleUser]

I was having problems with popups, so I downloaded the
Beta program. I was thrilled when it destroyed all the
ads. However, last night I tried to play an audio CD and
it never launched. I looked on the device manager, and I
found that my drivers for both my CD and DVD drives had
disappeared. I restored to a pre-beta date, and the
drivers are there. I re-ran Beta, and they're gone
again. Computer is a Sony Vaio, CD is ASUS and DVD is
Pioneer. Any ideas?

 

[Monitor]

Please submit a Tools, suspected spyware report from the
infected machine!

 

[HumbleUser]

Okay. I'm at work right now and can't get to it. Does
that submit the problem to Microsoft?

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Well, its generally for unknown Spyware that is hard to get rid of.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I think you need to be a little more cautious about oking all the proposed
actions after the scan.

Do the scan--for best results, do it in safe mode. Then go through the list
of stuff found and check the details of each item--see if you can spot the
items which include these drivers. Choose ignore for those items--but
record the names and details if not too voluminous.

This sounds like there are some false positives involved--or, perhaps,
virally infected drivers which are being properly flagged.

Another approach would be to allow Microsoft Antispyware to clean this stuff
up, but to restore the drivers from a known-good source--the vendors web
support site, or the original CD's that came with the machine.