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    Well, this one is old, maybe six months or more and it's still wrong.
    I ran at this time Spybot and it found Dialer_XX.
    When I saw the file it has found, I knew it was wrong. It says
    Autostart file:
    g:\winnt\profiles\all users\start menu\programs\startup\wordspring.lnk
    It turns out that such file is exactly a shortcut for Alcoda Software's Word Spring application:
    http://alcodasoftware.com/word-spring.htm
    I purchased this utility two years ago and I'm happy with it. As you see, the problem is not the program itself (that's an English dictionary I use because my native language is not English) but the shortcut. Thinking it was infected, I deleted it and created a new shortcut. Same flaw. After some weeks, I contacted Safer Networking by email and I remember a woman replied asking me for the file. I took care to send THE LNK ITSELF AND NOT THE PROGRAM but Spybot continued complaining against it. One month afterwards, I contacted the same email address where I was asked to send the file and never got an answer. Several months have passed, I've updated Spybot's signatures countless times and it still flags the Windows shortcut as Dialer_XX. Is there anyone at Safer Networking interested in fixing this false positive?

    Thanks.

    C.

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    Hello cvalde.
    I will bring this topic to Team's attention, thank you for reporting.
    tashi.
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    Hello cvalde,

    please send us the "wordspring.lnk" for further investigations to detections(at)spybot.info with the subject "Dialer_XX - further investigation".

    rene

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    Thanks, I forgot to reply here (in case it's necessary) that I already sent the file one day ago.

    C.

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    Thanks for sending the file. We found the reason for this false positive. The fix will be available in the next update which is scheduled for tomorrow.
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