MS Antispyware failed to detect WildTangent

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Mondoshawan

Anybody got a clue on this?

I ran Microsoft Antispyware twice on an XP SP2 box that
was moderately infested with various spyware. I removed
about 10 items the first time, I rebooted, checked for
updated definitions (of which there were none newer than
5727) and then ran Antispyware again and it found no
spyware the second time. Then I ran Sybot Search and
Destroy 1.3, which promptly discovered the signature for
what it described as WildTangent. It was able to clean 8
of 10 of the WildTangent objects, and prompted me to allow
it to run on startup to destroy the other 2. I did this
and the machine gave me a resource error in German after
running the scan during the next startup. I then upgraded
to Spybot S&D 1.4, which ran and this time found a single
different WildTangent object, a Java .jar file, which it
says it deletes, but which continues to show up on
subsequent scans.

Any ideas why MSA is missing this signature? Any other
suggestions to try to delete WildTangent? Ad-aware 1.06
completely misses it, too. Bazooka Spyware Scanner gets a
different result or calls it differently.
Anyone?
 
WildTangent is a gaming engine for online games and is installed with AOL as
well.

It probably isn't going to be picked up as spyware but you can uninstall it
from the ADD/Remove applet in Control Panel. If you do any online gaming or
play AOL Games, it will show right back up on your machine though.
 
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