Win Defender misses over 20 entries

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I loaded defender on a pc with issues. Running a full scan said the pc was
in good health. Loaded Spybot S&D and it found over 20 entries and issues.

Very disappointing product.
 
I am going to ask this before Microsoft does. Why be so surreptitious? How
many were cookies and what were the names of the "legitimate" spyware?
 
And of those 20 items, how many were cookies? Windows Defender does not
selectively scan for or remove cookies.
 
Cookies, Temp files and restore had already been deleted along with prefetch.
I know that some of the "other" programs can give false positives. None are
perfect.

It turned out the computer was infected with Winfixer.

I like Microsoft products, just cannot believe that it missed Winfixer and
everything else. In reality, the machine became infected with winfixer when
it had the Beta Version of MS spyware running. I downloaded and installed
the newer version because the older was about to expire.

Although it may seem that way to you, I am not trying to bash MS and this
product just trying to figure out what went wrong.
 
I have used Spybot for many years and like the product. I am very serious
when I ask you for the non-cookie stuff. My interest is the improvement of
Windows Defender. I would also caution against using just one product as a
comparison. I would like to see a-squared, ewido anti-malware, Webroot
Spysweeper used in your evaluations. You should continue the path you are
taking because in the long run someone will do a comparison test of a heavily
infested system and the winner will be the software that can detect (without
false positives) and remove the most infestations. Objectivity and
quantitative information prevail.
 
You are right, Ewido also found nothing and the online NAV found nothing.
But while the NAV was scanning, Bloodhound virus alert would go off. Mcaffee
recognized 2 PUPS.

After the Spybot, Hijack this found pmnno.dll, but could not delete it until
I downloaded another tool: vundofix.exe. Followed the instructions and got
the machine stable.

I dont recall the exact one, Hitbox?, Winfixer, Bloodhound, Party Poker kept
popping up. There were 21 listings of items.

Yes you are correct, you cannot depend on one program, just do not
understand why Defender did not catch the winfixer issue.
 
FWIW, what worked for me was F-secures Blacklight. That plus a safe mode
restart enabled me to stop enough of the critter to make it visible and
deletable.

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Bill,

Thanks, believe it or not I'm not some psycho that just wants to MF
microsoft. It truly misssed it. Fresh install and update. It really
surpised me because whenever I get a machine with an issue, I always download
and install the original betat and it has saved my rear.

Dont know what happened here though. BTW the only way I could get into safe
mode was to boot the PC normal and create a new account and safe boot to that
one. For some reason whenever I would try and log into the admin account, it
would start to load, but never produce icons.

Thanks
 
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