Swizzor?

[greenhatch]

Spybot 'detected' swizzor on my machine. As my machine is clean and neither Avast nor BoClean have alerted me to any malware, I assume the following are false positives:

Swizzor: Settings (Registry value, nothing done)
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1898707405-3787910941-3636372798-1007\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\New Windows\Allow\dns-look-up.com

Swizzor: Settings (Registry value, nothing done)
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1898707405-3787910941-3636372798-1007\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\New Windows\Allow\dns-look-up.com

--- Spybot - Search & Destroy version: 1.4 (build: 20050523) ---

If Spybot require, I will gladly send files, if a team man could help me in that regard.

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

Do you have installed the latest updates from the 2007-02-07?

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot

[greenhatch]

I didn't know Spybot updated other than on a Friday: was it a 'special'? Anyways I have now updated for Wednesday's update, re-scanned and guess what? Yes, I'm afraid so: Swizzor is still there in the detection!!
So, I repeat: Avast and BoClean have not alerted me to any malware, so I presume this is a false positive.

[Buster]

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1898707405-3787910941-3636372798-1007\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\New Windows\Allow\dns-look-up.com

means, that dns-look-up.com is allowed to display pop ups. If you fix this by Spybot, dns-lookup.com will no longer be explicitly allowed to display pop ups. So this is not a false positive.

[greenhatch]

So are you saying Swizzor is on my machine, despite Avast and BoClean reporting nothing? I am somewhat confused otherwise.

[greenhatch]

Sorry, Buster, the penny has dropped now I looked up my popup blocker settings. Something had added dns-lookup to the permitted settings, also netsearchsoft: even I had heard of the latter Now both removed!
So thanks Spybot, you did indeed alert me to a problem in the scan: I just didn't know how to deal properly.
Feel free to shift this thread or delete it.

[md usa spybot fan]

I didn't know Spybot updated other than on a Friday: was it a 'special'?

See the following thread in the Announcements forum:

• Changes in update schedule: now wednesdays!
  http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=11163