This pile of junk is going to ruin my business

[Bill Jones]

MS Antispyware has just erroneously identified my
shareware title as containing spyware simply because it
uses the well known expat open-source XML parser
(libexpat.dll).

As far as I'm concerned this is an unsubstantiated
libellous accusation on behalf of the Microsoft
Corporation and I'm sure that many other software authors
will be similarly affected.

I hope that they can defend making these accusations
because I'm sure that they will be very soon having to in
court !

 

[Chris H - 447142]

Bill-

Does any of the other freely or commercialy avaialble anti spy packages also
define your software as containing spyware?

 

[Ron Chamberlin-MVP]

Bill,
Check this out. Perhaps it's what you are looking for:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892340 Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)
identifies a program as a spyware threat (Listing criteria and Dispute
process)

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP

 

[Eric C. Vogel]

I hate to burst your bubble, but MAS said chktrust.exe was spyware and it is
part of the .NET Framwork. Also GAINT detected passport.com cookies spyware.

By posting it here, we will hope that all this are solved it Beta 2.

 

[John]

Please recommend what you would do to program this app to accept your use of
this open-source parser and still protect us from this
(http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/spyware.apropos.b.html
) use of this open source parser.

 

[Andre Da Costa [494805]]

Remember, its still beta.

Andre