"Exclude this..." and related question comment
Hi, I had the same two notification-warnings come up. I found that clicking on the "Exclude this product..." option the first notification didn't reappear when rescanning but the second one did.
On a related note, when I went to send in a bug report describing the problem, I got the Following message when I clicked send.
"Warning: mail(): Could not execute mail delivery program '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i ' in /homepages/14/d83789217/htdocs/spybot/scripts/emailform.php on line 164
Thank you, you will get a response soon"
So I'm not sure if the email got thru or if I may have caused myself a problem
in using the "Excude this product...." option memtioned above.
Thanks for any comments about this.
gaskibba
Feature Request for Windows Security Center Detections
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Originally Posted by spybotsandra
Since the Detections Update from July 25, 2005, Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.4 has been detecting Security Risks (renamed to "Windows Security Center" on July 30) associated with Microsoft Security Center Registry changes. This is neither a false positive nor a bug. It is just an information.
Spybot-S&D only wants to bring to your attention that "someone" disabled one or more notifications in the Windows Security Center, e.g. the notifications that your virus protection is not active or not up-to-date. If you changed the settings yourself you can safely tell Spybot-S&D to exclude those detections from further scans.
Quote:
Originally Posted by spybotsandra
The same is true if you have another security solution installed (like McAfee Security Center or Norton Internet Security). These programs do also disable the Windows Security Center in order to take care of things themselves.
The reason why the changes are flagged by Spybot-S&D is that there are also malware programs that disable the notifications so the user doesn't take note of his security tools not being effective.
First, thank you for the clear and concise explanation of what is being detected and why. In fact, I found it so helpfuly, I have a Feature Request because of it. And, since I couldn't find where one puts Feature Requests, I'm putting it here. My apologies if I missed the right place to post it; I have an amazing ability to miss the obvious. :rolleyes: Anyway, feel free to forward/move/whatever this post to the right place if I have missed where to make a feature request. That said, on to the feature request:
It would be very handy if your explanation (in some form) would be given when clicking the Information tab found on the right in Search & Destroy. This way those of us running Mcafee, Norton, etc can know this is a normal result quickly, saving us from panic, and letting us know to just exclude the result from future checks.
As I imagine that those of use safety-minded among us to be running Spybot-S&D! in the first place also run Mcafee, Norton, and the like, I think it would benefit a great number of users as well as cutting down on us having to search the forums and those of you in Support from having to explain (again) not to worry. (I'm a big fan of saving time and effort for everyone)
In any case, thanks again for the information.
FredOp
The Overly Wordy User
Windows Security Warning/system crash
Hi All,
My laptop is developing a serious problem. I will run Spybot and 90% of time, halfway through the run, the machine shuts down. The same problem occurs when I run the AVG antivirus software. I have tried other antivirus/antispyware products but they do not pick up anything. The one time I was able to find anything by running Spybot was this:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\SecurutyCentre
Other times I have run Spybot, I have found nothing.
My system will also crash on certain webpages - non adult (whatever it is, it doesn't seem to like certain type of banner ads.) In all cases, the machine's fan will begin to speed up and then suddenly: BANG.
I start up again and no damage seems to be done, except my system does want to check itself for errors.
So at long last my question: what is going on? Most people I've spoken to say I've got some kind of spyware, but I've gone into safe mode, rooted around...and I've found nothing.
Is it related to the Spybot alert above ?
Hoping anyone can help.
Thanks,
Mike