MS Anti-spyware Beta 1 ate my operating system!

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Martin Lafferty

I am a software developer. The project I am working on is
very complicated and a build generates lots of dlls. In
order to manage the build process I have a few batch files
that I sometimes run to carry out common housekeeping
tasks - one of which is to delete *.dll from my build
directory.

Whether I run my batch script from the shell or from
inside the VS IDE it runs in the directory containing the
script i.e c:\tempstuff\cleanup.bat will run in
c:\mytempstuff - UNLESS (here is the crunch) MS Anti
spyware has just asked for confirmation that it is OK to
run the script. In this case, and in this case only, the
batch file runs in C:\Windows\System32.

Did I mention that my batch file calls del *.dll?

Don't try this at home!


regards

Martin Lafferty
 
We are aware of this issue, and are working on a fix for a future release. I
think system file protection will restore the DLL's which are critical to
the os, so hopefully not all is lost.

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-steve

Steve Dodson [MSFT]
MCSE, CISSP
PSS Security

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I am afraid all was lost - the system file protection made
a brave attempt at restoration, but ignored HAL.DLL which
was nevertheless toast. After a bit of messing about I did
manage to get the machine to boot, but only just: nothing
much worked. Unfortunately I was running Windows 2003
server - no system restore! Anyway, my foolishness is OT
here.

I still think MSAS is a good product - these sort of
things are bound to happen with a beta.

regards

ML
 
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