Why does MSAS set the default action to ignore when it finds Claria?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Nocturnal
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Hi Nocturnal

I think all this negative feedback about Microsoft and
Claria isnt justified at all .Ive tested this myself and
MS Antispy still make it very clear that Claria is
Adware.It has changed them to ignore when the scan
finishes but thats the only difference, it still detects
claria and the option to ignore can easily be changed to
remove

I have loads of protection products installed and it was
only MS Antispy that gave me repeated warnings that i was
installing Adware on my system.Spysweeper and Spyware
guard even though the real time protection is enabled
both failed to notice the changes when i installed Claria.

It was only after the installation finished and i
rebooted to let the changes take effect that spy sweeper
then noticed Claria on my system then gave a warning ,Id
allowed the changes on 3 MS Antispy alert pop-ups and
then it even gave another warning when i rebooted that
Claria was trying to run on my pc which made it 4
warnings from MS



I downloaded and run CPU Rocket which is one of Claria's
many programs .Straight away i received Red Alert Popups
from MS Antispy for each part of the Adware that was
installing (Claria-Gain,Claria-Gain-Trickler,Claria-
Dashbar)

Heres the Alert for Claria.Gain.Trickler

WARNING : MS Antispy Alert

MS Antispy has detected the threat Claria.Gain.Trickler
trying to install a start up file on your computer.
If you would like to allow Claria.Gain.Trickler to
install the start up file click the 'Allow' Button below

Name : Claria.Gain.Trickler
Type : Adware
Threat Level : Moderate
Author : Claria Corporation(Formerly known as Gator Corp)

Advise : Moderate risk items have some potential for
adverse effects,but may be part of a wanted service,Users
may decide to ignore such programs after review.


Even after pressing allow on all the pop up alert windows
i then rebooted to make sure the install was complete and
then got another warning from MS Antispy when i rebooted
saying

Allow threat to run ?

Are you sure you would like to allow the threat
Claria.Gain to run on your system

Looking at the scan results MS Antispy are doing alot
better than some of the other well known removers


MS Antispy - 3185 Traces of Adware Claria

Spysweeper - 809 Traces

Adaware SE - 52 total references to Claria

Spybot - 20 Claria files detected


To be fair to Ad-Aware and Spybot they mostly only
detected the folders and not the files inside the folders
but removing the folders probably would of removed most
of the files that the other scanners detected .


It was very easy to clean up the pc just by uninstalling
CPU Rocket ,After i removed that and rebooted MS Antispy
detected 30 traces in the registry in the classes folder
and software folder for Gator related items which i
removed and that was the end of Claria so i appreciate
why MS Antispy are not regarding this as a big problem.

It still made it very clear i was installing Adware and
gave repeated warnings which none of my other protection
products did except spysweeper but it was already
installed on my system by then.

Hope this helps people see Microsofts Antispy is still
removing Claria and in my opinion the amount of traces
found by MS Antispy makes the other removers look really
bad considering MS is still in the beta testing stage and
doesnt cost anything.


Regards


Andy
 
Thanks for doing the research, Andy. People really need to get all of
the facts before condemning something that is nothing but rumors at this
point in time.
Still, MS could dispel such rumors by releasing some info so that the
general public doesn't get fed constant mis/half truths.

Steve Wechsler (akaMowGreen)
MS-MVP 2003-2005
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