possible false positive for Registry Fix

[drragostea]

Seems like there is such an option. It should work.

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[mittens]

i cant put a url in of the screenshot, but I can tell you
that the two middle commands, the exclude ones, are there but greyed out.
Not sure why. I'll go into the settings and see if something that should be turned on has been turned off.

[md usa spybot fan]

mittens:

If you want to exclude the item from future detections:

• Expand the detection if necessary (+ to the left of the detection).
• Select the item (entry) that you want to exclude by left clicking on it to highlight it.
• Then right click on highlighted detection.
• Select from the list of options in the menu.

In other words left click to select then right click to display options. If you don't select (highlight) the item first the options menu is for the entire detection list.

[mittens]

I just ran another scan with spybot, to implement your suggestion, md, only this time there was no Registry Fix to ignore. Instead there was a nice green check mark.

Whatever happened, the Registry Fix malware seems to have gone.

[Matt]

Operating System (Windows XP Professional, Win95 ,etc.) WindowsXP sp2
Browser and Version (Internet Explorer 7, FireFox 2.0.0.7, etc) 6.0

Hi mittens,

please update Windows and Firefox!

Best regards,
-Matt-

[mittens]

but that was IE, 6.0

never had firefox.

[Matt]

but that was IE, 6.0

never had firefox.

Hi mittens,

then I don't know, why you mentioned it?

You shouldn't use IE 6.0 which is... I don't know... 5 years old?

Best regards,
-Matt-

[mittens]

I was doing an answer to the original question and forgot to specify that it was IE and not firefox.

I use IE 6.0 because I like it. also, when 7 came out it was extremely buggy, and that made me leery of loading it at all. People I knew said it had given them more grief than it was worth, and in looking over some of the older comments I can see why. And as I understand it, 8 is for Vista users.

And I rather like 6.0. It works for me, and I dont ask a huge amount of it, so why should I change?

[drragostea]

Well, back to the point of this thread. mittens, if you wish to continue using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 despite -Matt-'s suggestions, feel free to do so. I respect that.

This seems a bit odd, very odd, because I can Ignore any products with no problems. Highlight the Registry Fix entry with the left click, still hovering over it, right-click on the entry (actually the entry in bold, not the subentries) and click "Exclude this product from future searches".

[mittens]

I went in and ran spybot again, one final time, to do just what you suggested. However, this time the search came up clean, no Registry Fix, no malware. just a big green checkmark.

I had also updated my spybot definitions (or whatever they're called) beforehand, so Im just wondering if in the process Spybot no longer sees Registry Fix as a threat.

I have not been able to implement your suggestion because there was no item to implement. If you follow me, here.

Whatever happened, it seems to be showing a clean slate.