Script blocker popup does not work with vertical taskbar

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Berend Engelbrecht

Hello,

We found a curious thing on our developer machines after installing
Microsoft AntiSpyware. At first we thought it was not possible at all to run
batchfiles when AntiSpyware is active. Each time we tried, a "thing" flew
through the screen, too quick to notice what it was. Looked cute but
useless.

By chance we found out that it is supposed to be a msn messenger-style popup
window informing about "unknown script file attempting to run". The
animation in the popup window has a bug: it never stops and the window flies
out of the desktop to never never land if the Windows taskbar is docked to
the left or right edge of the screen, rather than to the bottom. The
developers happen to use a dual screen setup with the taskbar docked to the
side of the screen AND they need to use batchfiles, so they ran into the
problem.

If you're interested, I have uploaded a Word document containing some
screenshots that a collegue made to our support website:
http://support.decos.nl/Blocker.doc

Let me finish by saying that it is alway heartwarming to see that other
development teans also make embarrasingly stupid bugs :D

Best regards,

Berend Engelbrecht
Decos Software Engineering bv
Noordwijk, The Netherlands
 
Thanks - this is a known issue. Be very careful with scripts. On the first
run, after assenting to the popup, the default directory for the script will
be system32, as I recall, and not whatever the script is expecting. This
one is also known.

Thanks for your kind words for the developers!
 
Dear Bill,

Thanks for your reply. Do you (or does someone else) know when a new beta
will be released where the issue is fixed? Not seeing the alerts makes the
real time protection kind of unusable for us now (there are just too many
things we need to do on our PCs that are considered possible threats and
thus are blocked), but I still have the general opinion that releasing this
tool under the Microsoft brand is a very good idea and I would like to
cooperate in testing it.

Best regards,

Berend
 
I don't think we will hear about a new beta drop until it happens, based on
past experience. They've stated publicly that there will be one, and that
cookie scanning functionality is "under consideration." I don't really
expect to hear more until it happens.
 
The only suggestion at present is to dock the taskbar at
the bottom of the screen, where the popups are better
behaved.
 
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