BUG: Script Confirmation popup w. Taskbar in nondefault location

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Chuck Tomlinson

I have my taskbar dragged from the bottom (default
location) to the right side of my screen, slightly
widened to see the the taskbar button captions.. I double-
clicked a .bat file and got the Allow/Block popup as I
should, except that instead of just coming up from the
bottom and hanging around in the bottom right, it flew
right past, all the way up the right side of the screen
and off the top.. It was pretty funny to see, and I don't
really care to have a response, but I thought I'd report
the bug..
 
-----Original Message-----
I have my taskbar dragged from the bottom (default
location) to the right side of my screen, slightly
widened to see the the taskbar button captions.. I double-
clicked a .bat file and got the Allow/Block popup as I
should, except that instead of just coming up from the
bottom and hanging around in the bottom right, it flew
right past, all the way up the right side of the screen
and off the top.. It was pretty funny to see, and I don't
really care to have a response, but I thought I'd report
the bug..
.
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Ditto to the above, I also have my taskbar along the
Right Edge and widened to just under 5mm (2") and saw the
exact same bug.

In my case, as you can read below, this was a serious
problem and was glad that all I had to do was "Shutdown
Microsoft AntiSpyware".

I have pasted below the message that I had placed on the
Dell site:
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?
board.id=si_virus&message.id=38173

And the Moderator had suggested that I should go here
with the bug report.


This new Program has been up and running for several
weeks, performing a scan every night.

It has yet to find the first issue or done anything else
that I could tell until yesterday.

I have one very important old DOS Program, Pratt &
Whitney's Engine Condition Trend Monitoring.

When I tried to open it, all I got was a message box
streaking up the right side from bottom to top in about a
tenth of a second.

Nothing (pause key, grabbing with cursor, etc.) would
stop this pass long enough to see what it was until I
captured its image with 'Print Screen' and pasted it into
Word. "Microsoft AntiSpyware Alert, [?] An Unknown
Script File..."

It had been an Alert about an unknown Script File that
required approval "A script file C:\TREND\ECTM/WNT/PIF
is trying to execute. This file has been frozen from
running pending your approval. ..."

Following the "Help" instructions to find blocked items
turned up nothing, had I been able to get it to stop long
enough, the alert box has a box for [Allow] and other
options.

Shutdown of MS Spy Protection did allow the program to
run, anyone with a better idea or is this the price of
Beta, shouldn't Microsoft want feedback from users on
things that go wrong?

SpyBot S&D Always finds six or so things to remove, Ad-
Aware (run second) rarely does and I have run neither for
the past few weeks of MS protection.

Art
 
You are in the right place to provide feedback.

Yes, this is a known issue when the taskbar is vertical, as opposed to
horizontal. By that I mean that Microsoft is aware of it and working on a
version that won't exhibit this behavior, but that version is not yet
released.

The builds released so far do not scan for cookies--check the results of
your scans and see what the items are that are detected.

There are some serious issues with scripts and the current builds of
Microsoft Antispyware. Some information about this is available here:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/articles/antispy.mspx
--
FAQ for Microsoft Antispyware:
http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm

Art said:
-----Original Message-----
I have my taskbar dragged from the bottom (default
location) to the right side of my screen, slightly
widened to see the the taskbar button captions.. I double-
clicked a .bat file and got the Allow/Block popup as I
should, except that instead of just coming up from the
bottom and hanging around in the bottom right, it flew
right past, all the way up the right side of the screen
and off the top.. It was pretty funny to see, and I don't
really care to have a response, but I thought I'd report
the bug..
.
Click to expand...
Ditto to the above, I also have my taskbar along the
Right Edge and widened to just under 5mm (2") and saw the
exact same bug.

In my case, as you can read below, this was a serious
problem and was glad that all I had to do was "Shutdown
Microsoft AntiSpyware".

I have pasted below the message that I had placed on the
Dell site:
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?
board.id=si_virus&message.id=38173

And the Moderator had suggested that I should go here
with the bug report.


This new Program has been up and running for several
weeks, performing a scan every night.

It has yet to find the first issue or done anything else
that I could tell until yesterday.

I have one very important old DOS Program, Pratt &
Whitney's Engine Condition Trend Monitoring.

When I tried to open it, all I got was a message box
streaking up the right side from bottom to top in about a
tenth of a second.

Nothing (pause key, grabbing with cursor, etc.) would
stop this pass long enough to see what it was until I
captured its image with 'Print Screen' and pasted it into
Word. "Microsoft AntiSpyware Alert, [?] An Unknown
Script File..."

It had been an Alert about an unknown Script File that
required approval "A script file C:\TREND\ECTM/WNT/PIF
is trying to execute. This file has been frozen from
running pending your approval. ..."

Following the "Help" instructions to find blocked items
turned up nothing, had I been able to get it to stop long
enough, the alert box has a box for [Allow] and other
options.

Shutdown of MS Spy Protection did allow the program to
run, anyone with a better idea or is this the price of
Beta, shouldn't Microsoft want feedback from users on
things that go wrong?

SpyBot S&D Always finds six or so things to remove, Ad-
Aware (run second) rarely does and I have run neither for
the past few weeks of MS protection.

Art
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