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    Default 2nd Question

    Sorry, meant 1st Question...

    The main scanner had two hits, one for a BHO and the other for the CLSID itself of 1EA86710-7264-4D0F... and called it malware. (only wrote down enough of the CLSID to find it.) The single file scanner identified it as only heuristics. For the main scanner to ID the file referenced in the registry, it either doesn't check the file and just reports the two registry entries, or it uses heuristics and reports it as malware. Would appreciate knowing which it is to better utilize Spybot in the future. Spybot traditionally came up with less than many other malware scanners, but was very good as to false positives. (This is the first one I have seen.)

    p.s. Will be tonight before I can send the file (CST).
    Last edited by joffenb; 2009-02-02 at 16:50. Reason: Mistake in title - meant 1st Question...

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