Re: Re: URGENT : Running Spybot - Search and Destroy Gives problems.

From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 07/05/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 17:54:45 -0500

Lakshmi Jagarlapudi wrote:
> Instead of trying to define what is a virus or spyware etc etc..., the
> bottomline is that there is a nagging problem in the PC. And Spybot
> has detected that when I ran it on my PC. And spybot told that it can
> fix the problem, I dont care whether it is a virus or spyware or
> something else.
>
> And in "so-called" fixing it , it accidentally changed something in
> the registry. And this happened not just once but twice. I had to
> restore my system twice.
>
> So I would rather put a pull stop to whether we should run spybot or
> not.(because it has detected a problem). I would concentrate more on
> why it has tampered with registry. Hope I am very clear atleast now.
> And if a anit-virus program can fix the problem , I would
> appreciate if you can suggest a link where i can download
> the program and run it. Or do I have to buy it? I would appreciate any
> pointers.

How about you tell us what you got spybot for in the first place?

I have run Spybot on thousands of different machines from Windows 98SE on up
to Windows XP without any of the issues you are describing. Spybot Search
and Destroy, when gotten from a reliable source, is a great program. It has
NOT removed anything from any compute I have used it on that I did not want
to get rid of (although the customer might insist that "iWon" is valid
corporate material.)

Perhaps if you shared what you oroginally ran Spybot trying to clear up,
whether it was a virus, a worm, a trojan, or any other form of malware - no
matter - what were the specific symptoms that brought you to running Spybot
Search and Destroy? 

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