HELP!!! microsoft anti spyware beta

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the program has taken my kazaa shared folder that contains all of my music
and labeled it, "under investigation!!!" the music is still visible on the
scan report. HOW do i restore my shared folder and get my music back?????
pleas help! thank you very much!!
 
Tools, spyware scan, manage spyware quarantine.

If this reads "there are currently no spyware threats in your spyware"

you are probably out of luck.

If it shows what you want, check off the items, and choose to unquarantine.

There are several processes here which may take a long time--perhaps hours:
One is the appearance of the list of items in the quarantine management
screen. If this screen is completely blank, leave it up there--go away, do
something fun--and check back on it later--maybe even overnight.

If the stuff appears, I'm unclear how long the unquarantine process takes,
once checked and initiated.

Once you've unquarantined the music, I STRONGLY recommend moving it to a
non-standard location--maybe under My Music, for example. We haven't seen
these reports for awhile, but there have been regular reports in the past of
loss of the files after the next reboot, in this kind of situation. So move
it before rebooting.

There have definitely been reports of success in removing large volumes of
music from quarantine, and quarantine is now the default action for these
files--so I believe you have a good chance. Folks who have interrupted the
process of moving the files INTO quarantine, and thus preventing creation of
the index for these files, have had no success.

The files are in a quarantine subfolder of \program files\microsoft
antispyware, and are renamed--i.e. if you name them back xxx.mp3, they will
play. However, although in theory there are command line apps to extract
the titles from the files, and allow you to use that info to rename the
files, I've not heard from anyone who succeeded in going that route.
 
Release
Notes:

Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) may prompt you to remove some peer-to-peer (P2P) file
sharing programs. If you choose to remove such a program, Windows AntiSpyware
(Beta) deletes the entire contents of the Program Files directory that relates
to the P2P program. Because some P2P programs store downloaded files in a
default directory under Program Files, this might remove all files downloaded
through the file-sharing program. For example, KaZaA stores .exe and .dll files
at C:\Program Files\Kazaa. Downloaded files are stored at C:\Program
Files\Kazaa\My Shared Folder. If you use Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) to remove
KaZaA, all files and folders under C:\Program Files\Kazaa are removed. If you
have installed any P2P file sharing programs, we recommend that you make a
backup copy of your downloaded files before running Windows AntiSpyware (Beta).
 
Our MP3's were also put in the Microsoft Antispyware quarantine folder( all
3,000 of them). We also were not given the opportunity to "unquarantine"
Kazaa as the window in the program showing what was currently quarantined was
blank. We could play the files from the Quarantine folder in Media Player but
they had been renamed with a number and letter string. So I found a program
called Abander Tag Control 2.6 Beta 3
(http://www.softartstudio.com/tagcontrol/ ) which finds the tag of an MP3
file and allows you to rename it with whatever info like artist, album, etc.
It is a nice interface and it does the job. It's shareware with a 10 day or
so trial. I needed to add the .mp3 extension to the frustratingly AntiSpyware
renamed files in the quarantined folder and use Abander to retag them with
the real titles.
 
Thanks very much for posting this!

Can you believe that you are the first person, in the nearly one-year
history of this beta, during which probably hundreds of thousands of MP3's
have bitten the dust in similar fashion--to have managed this trick?

I've personally researched enough to tell folks that this is possible, and
suggested it as a remedy when all else has failed, but I'd yet to hear from
anyone who'd actually gone and found the appropriate software and done the
job.

With your permission, I'd like to archive this post as a cut and paste--and
encourage others here to do this as well. I believe this kind of problem
won't be with us for too much longer, but at least we can offer a remedy for
those to whom it will continue to happen.

Additionally--it is likely that there are other users who have kept the
quarantine files around in the hope that it would be possible to do
something with them eventually.

I'd encourage you to post this as a new post, with a descriptive title, in
both this group and the .General group.

Thanks again!

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Please do whatever you like with the information I posted and the link to the
Abander program that will help out other angry users of Microsoft antispyware
who got into trouble with renamed MP3z. I will try to post it in the other
group you mentioned.
 
Thanks! I really am quite pleased that somebody finally got around to
making this connection--I hadn't had the first-hand experience, so I was
never motivated to go dig up the right apps myself--well done!

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