Two quarantine files

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After recently installing Norton AV 2005 it found a spyware file in a folder
in the quarantine folder in the MSAS directory. The thing about this that
disturbs me is that MSAS didn't show anything in quarantine and when I
looked I found two folders in the quarantine folder, each one with a long
I.D. as it's name. Has anyone else noticed this in their MSAS directory?

Mike
 
Can you provide the name of the folders__

Please submit a suspected spyware report to spynet (tools-
 
The folder I found the spyware file in (NAV IDed it as Adware.SAHAgent
named CF984887-C0B9-4699-A6E9-EEE00E) is called
"0CEADBCD-8457-4F1B-8EE2-EE670C" the other is called
"9FB0311A-A7F2-4019-9AD9-A9935D" both are in MSAS quarantine folder.
 
I'm not surprised that the antivirus app found the file. Quarantine is sort
of an "honor system"--the multiple vendors need to explicitly know about
each others quarantines in order to honor them--and perhaps they shouldn't!
I definitely wouldn't expect production antivirus apps to take into account
the beta product's characteristics.

The issue with there being files in the quarantine area, but not showing in
the UI is of more concern to me, but I don't know what to do about it except
report it here. Microsoft does read these messages.
 
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