False Pos (more or less): MSN Money / Microsoft Money

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Eric

I didn't see this one on
http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.txt .
I can see that it is really just AntiSpyware doing its
job, but it is a nuisance that will confuse a lot of
people.

The "MSN Investment Toolbox" on MSN Money
adds "money://@surf.mar@" to the Local Intranet zone,
and "@signup.mar@" to the Trusted Sites zone (Internet
Explorer), without any warning or comment. The real-time
protection feature of AntiSpyware flags these, and asks
if they should be permitted. It sure looks suspicious
when it happens - there is no indication of what software
causes this. Apparently, since the MSN Investment Toolbox
software is just a subset of the Microsoft Money
software, the same issue applies to it.

Here are links to a couple of discussions of people
trying to troubleshoot this elsewhere:

http://www.talkaboutsoftware.com/group/microsoft.public.mo
ney/messages/166814.html

http://money.mvps.org/faq/article/78.aspx

http://www.pftalk.com/ftopic7522.html

Eric
 
Those links only detailed information concerning Microsoft Internet Explorer
Trusted zone, nothing relating to MSAS.

You can always submit false reports here:
http://www.spynet.com/falsepositive.aspx

With the information you send to them, the community can determine
definitions for AntiSpyware which software products on your computer are not
spyware and can be bypassed.
 
Well, this was the final reply in the first link ...

"You can elect, in MS AntiSpy, to disable the protocol
enabler; this worked
for a while for me. I then gave up and removed MS AntiSpy.

--
Michael Gordon
MVP"

.... I would certainly say that was relating to MSAS!
Granted, the later links were more for background. But,
as I said, I realize that MSAS was doing its job. OTOH,
it is a little frustrating when it flags something a
Microsoft product (for home users) normally does, and
it's something so cryptic that a normal user couldn't be
expected to figure out what was happening.

Eric
 
Eric - I think you (and Michael Gordon!) are correct. This is a false
positive on the part of Microsoft Antispyware. A similar issue seems to hit
some Hotmail users. I've no doubt they will work this one out but it may be
that it will take more than just a definition update--and that means we will
need to wait for another beta release to see whether they can fix this.
 
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