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Re: anti-adware and false positives (was: Virus infect on single user)


From: "Joshua Levitsky" <jlevitsk () joshie com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:27:51 -0500

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Spiro Trikaliotis" <trik-news () gmx de>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 3:55 AM

Yes, you get rid of EVERYTHING - especially of things you still need.
:-(

Is there any developper on this list who uses a Microsoft DDK für NT4,
2000 or XP? You cannot use Adaware on such a machine, as it always
stumbles on the headers and source files of the provided examples,
especially the network examples. It tells me they would be part of some
malware.

Ad-Aware has a nice thing where you can pick to ignore certain files. Do a
scan of your system and be very careful on the first scan to go through and
see what each thing is. Mark all your DDK stuff as ignore. All done. And
seperately you might want to email the LavaSoft guys and let them know about
the false positive.

--
Joshua Levitsky, MCSE, CISSP
System Engineer
Time Inc. Information Technology
[5957 F27C 9C71 E9A7 274A 0447 C9B9 75A4 9B41 D4D1]

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