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Xenia
2008-02-28, 06:31
I've been running SpyBot (and Ad Aware, for that matter) on a machine that almost certainly has spyware - and I can detect some of that spyware with AVG and Zone Alarm. Unfortunately, SpyBot (and, again, Ad Aware) detects absolutely nothing:

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/1871/spybotfw1.jpg

Zone Alarm's spyware scan found "P2P-Worm.Win32.Logpole.c" along with a few other trojans, but SpyBot found nothing.

Since no spyware scanner was run on the computer in question for the past four months (at least), and because said computer has users who are a bit careless about where they go (they managed to nearly break the windows install with malware four months ago, and things aren't that great now), I find this pretty implausible. What could completely block SpyBot's ability to detect spyware? More importantly, how could I clear it up?

tashi
2008-02-28, 07:57
Hello,

That is an old Kazaa implicated item, have you installed a P2P program? During a search on this I saw Zone Alarm had false positives going back to 2006.

If you would like someone to make an analysis please follow the procedure in this link: "BEFORE you POST"(READ this Procedure BEFORE Requesting Assistance) (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288)

Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) where a helper will advise you when available.

Best regards.

Xenia
2008-02-28, 08:50
Thank you much, and sorry for not reading the stickies.

Now to wait for Kaspersky to scan.

tashi
2008-02-28, 08:59
No problem at all, :) and the scan does take a long time :sick: but is very helpful with an analysis.