In Spybot v2.4 Malware Scan the words (IS NOT) appears...

[Honukane]

My question is that when I do a System Scan under Spybot v2.4, and the report is generated when the scan is complete, in the Locations Tab, the Registry Path appears, and immediately following it are the words (is not) in Parenthesis. What does that mean? What significance is it?

[tashi]

Hello Honukane,

I've left a note asking the team about the term (is not)

Best regards.

[(m/f)]

Hi, the term "is not" refers to a default value to a key. Spybot detects some altered values, especially if these enable backdoors or lower the general security level of the system. Example: "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableTaskMgr" default value is "0". If this gets altered for example to "1" (Taskmanager disabled), Spybot will detect this change and try to change it back to "0" as the value "is not" 0.

Hope this helps.