im looking for the koran

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It's interesting that Microsoft's software didn't find the
hyperbar.dll which actually does the work. Only two conclusions
possible: either Antispyware is prone to false alarms, or it's so
crappily coded that it doesn't remove essential components of spyware
it claims to find.
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I thoroughly searched the whole of my system (two drives) for that file,
and found nothing. The fact that only registry entries were reported and no
accompanying files, certainly aroused my suspicions originally. That
applied to all its other 'detections' too, with one exception. That was
WinPcap, which is required for the proper running of Ethereal. It did
suggest that I ignore that, but still marked it as a threat!

Cheers,

Roy
 
Do what I did. Download Microsoft Antispyware. Don't allow it to
connect to the Internet during the install process. Open it up and
turn off *everything* -- all the features that are on by default,
many of which have to do with active connections to the Internet
behind your back, such as the auto-update. Then go into "msconfig"
and turn off the file that causes MS Antispyware to start up each
time you boot your computer. The result will be a very
well-behaved anti-spyware software that does what it's told, when
you tell it to.
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I still don't understand why I should go to all that trouble when
there are several free antispyware programs that do the job just as
well, and which don't try to act as spyware themselves.

Do you really trust Microsoft to remove spyware, such as Alexa, which
its own spftware puts on your machine? And have you considered the
probability that Microsoft is offering this program to preempt
independent antispyware programs that might crampt its style?
 
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