Thanks, I tried that but the only relevant option was for
Western calendar with English display, and it didn't help.
(First option on the Japanese system is actually for the
Japanese calendar with Japanese, but the default is the
second option, the Western calendar in Japanese.) The
format this anti-spyware program is trying to use doesn't
seem to correspond to any of the system-level options you
referred to.
Anyway, you should just file this under "bug report". It's
not worth worrying more about such a minor issue,
especially in this awkward Web-based newsgroup approach. I
tried to figure out the part about using OE, but couldn't
find the "usual" information, and concluded Microsoft must
be trying to discourage OE's use here.
And yes, I know that the product was highly rated before
Microsoft bought it. That's not to say it will survive the
transition, even though Microsoft has a better-than-
average track record in harvesting acquired technology.
The real-time protection may be better, but I'm externally
required to use something else for that on most of my
systems. All in all, much to early to make a firm
judgment, but so far it looks like #3 for my purposes.