Who Knew:
Although I don't know what, here has to be something else in play in your system but not in mine.
In the following detection:
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MS Media Player: Anonymous ID (Registry change, nothing done)
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1275210071-764733703-1060284298-1004\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences\SendUserGUID!=B=0
"!=B=0" indicates: not equal (!=) binary (b) equal 0 (=0). In other words the SendUserGUID registry entry is not binary zero.
I'm running Windows XP (Home) and I'm still using Windows Media Player 9.00.00.3349.
When I check "Send unique Player ID to content providers" and click "Apply" the following registry entry immediately changes:
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences]
From:
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"SendUserGUID"=hex:00
To:
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"SendUserGUID"=hex:01
And Spybot detects it.
If I uncheck "Send unique Player ID to content providers" and click "Apply" the following registry entry immediately changes:
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences]
From:
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"SendUserGUID"=hex:01
To:
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"SendUserGUID"=hex:00
And Spybot no longer detects it.
I don't what is causing the difference in our observations, but at lease you know the cause of the following detection:
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MS Media Player: Anonymous ID (Registry change, nothing done)
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1275210071-764733703-1060284298-1004\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences\SendUserGUID!=B=0
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As far as this observation goes:
Originally Posted by
Who Knew
If I uncheck the check box in Media Player's options and re-scan with Spybot, Spybot still reports it as a detection. However, when I look at that binary value's value again, it's displayed as 00 (zero-zero).
Try exiting and restarting Spybot before the "Check for problems". Spybot may still have that registry entry in memory or paged.