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SpyBot 1.4 -- possibly something bad attached?, Wanted to add weird site to "safe list"
bloomcounty
post Jun 6 2005, 06:25 PM
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Edit: This isn't meant to slam SpyBot in any way, of course. It's a great program and I'm thankful for the time the creator(s) put into it for us to use!

Hi,

I downloaded and installed SpyBot 1.4 on the two computers at work, an XP machine and a Windows 2000 machine. Both machines also have Microsoft Anti-Virus on them. Now, on both machines, when I clicked "Immunize" for the first time, all of a sudden it flagged the MS Anti-Virus and it asked me if I wanted to allow the website www.139mm.com (don't click on the link, for all I know, the site itself has spyware on it) to be added to my "safe list". I blocked it and then looked at it in the listing in the MS Anti-Virus and it showed it as a registry value that wanted to be added, I believe. What's up with that? The website looks like a foreign site with a bunch of links on it -- why would SpyBot want to add a registry value for it and allow it as "safe" as part of Immunizing?

(I googled the site and only one entry came up in a foreign language -- I went to the chached version and it just looked like a junk site, but I'm also worried that by going to that, I allowed other crap to download or something...)

I am also concerned about my home machine, as it's a Windows 98SE machine (so I don't have MS Anti-Virus on it), so for all I know, that registry value for that site has been added without my knowing.

Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated! This has got me concerned. sad.gif Thanks!

-- bloomcounty

This post has been edited by bloomcounty: Jun 6 2005, 06:54 PM
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- - Keith   Have installed a few versions of Spybot and I do n...   Jun 6 2005, 06:57 PM
|- - bloomcounty   QUOTE(Keith @ Jun 6 2005, 05:57 PM)Have insta...   Jun 6 2005, 07:04 PM
- - Keith   Right after you re-install, run ad-aware se which ...   Jun 6 2005, 07:22 PM
|- - bloomcounty   QUOTE(Keith @ Jun 6 2005, 06:22 PM)Right afte...   Jun 6 2005, 07:50 PM
- - Keith   Edited duplicate   Jun 6 2005, 07:22 PM
- - Keith   Not had a problem with the IE one, MS does ask to ...   Jun 6 2005, 07:56 PM
|- - bloomcounty   QUOTE(Keith @ Jun 6 2005, 06:56 PM)Not had a ...   Jun 7 2005, 08:16 AM
- - Keith   IE has to be used for Windows Update so I suppose ...   Jun 7 2005, 08:37 AM
|- - bloomcounty   QUOTE(Keith @ Jun 7 2005, 07:37 AM)IE has to ...   Jun 7 2005, 09:03 AM
- - Keith   I would e-mail Patrick M Kolla http://www.safer-...   Jun 7 2005, 09:11 AM
|- - bloomcounty   QUOTE(Keith @ Jun 7 2005, 08:11 AM)I would e-...   Jun 7 2005, 10:26 AM
- - Keith   Probably best until you get a response from them ...   Jun 7 2005, 10:34 AM
- - bloomcounty   UPDATE: Ad-Aware did not catch any registry change...   Jun 11 2005, 03:20 PM
- - Keith   I have Spybot 1.4 on a 98SE and it did not show th...   Jun 11 2005, 03:52 PM
|- - bloomcounty   QUOTE(Keith @ Jun 11 2005, 02:52 PM)I have Sp...   Jun 11 2005, 04:09 PM
- - bloomcounty   Well, I scanned through the entire list of "R...   Jun 11 2005, 06:29 PM
- - bloomcounty   Keith -- I hope you're still monitoring this t...   Jun 13 2005, 11:16 AM
- - Keith   Rename them first, so you have something to undo   Jun 13 2005, 11:43 AM
|- - bloomcounty   QUOTE(Keith @ Jun 13 2005, 10:43 AM)Rename th...   Jun 13 2005, 11:53 AM
- - Keith   Click start then run then type regedit then press ...   Jun 13 2005, 12:03 PM
- - bloomcounty   Okay, I did what you showed me, but it doesn't...   Jun 13 2005, 12:21 PM
- - Keith   If they can stay where they are for a while, I nee...   Jun 13 2005, 12:35 PM
|- - bloomcounty   QUOTE(Keith @ Jun 13 2005, 11:35 AM)If they c...   Jun 13 2005, 12:55 PM
|- - bloomcounty   QUOTE(Metallica @ Jun 13 2005, 12:17 PM)I hav...   Jun 13 2005, 01:38 PM
- - Metallica   I haven't read the entire thread, but I wish t...   Jun 13 2005, 01:17 PM
- - Keith   Thank you very much   Jun 13 2005, 01:21 PM
- - Metallica   "Unblock all checked items." Then check...   Jun 13 2005, 01:56 PM
|- - bloomcounty   QUOTE(Metallica @ Jun 13 2005, 12:56 PM)...   Jun 13 2005, 02:13 PM
- - Metallica   Click Start > Run > type regedit > OK Th...   Jun 13 2005, 02:29 PM
|- - bloomcounty   QUOTE(Metallica @ Jun 13 2005, 01:29 PM)Click...   Jun 13 2005, 02:56 PM
- - Metallica   The problem is that we can't see what you bloc...   Jun 13 2005, 03:06 PM
|- - bloomcounty   QUOTE(Metallica @ Jun 13 2005, 02:06 PM)The p...   Jun 13 2005, 03:14 PM
- - Metallica   Well I find that alarrm very confusing since it sa...   Jun 14 2005, 11:31 AM
|- - bloomcounty   QUOTE(Metallica @ Jun 14 2005, 10:31 AM)Well ...   Jun 14 2005, 01:02 PM
- - Metallica   You should be good to go. It only shows that i...   Jun 14 2005, 01:07 PM
- - bloomcounty   Thanks for the help... But before you go, 3 things...   Jun 14 2005, 01:30 PM
- - Metallica   1. Like I said. It's a beta and they are still...   Jun 14 2005, 01:48 PM
|- - bloomcounty   QUOTE(Metallica @ Jun 14 2005, 12:48 PM)3. Th...   Jun 14 2005, 02:09 PM
- - bloomcounty   So I just read on another forum where someone post...   Jun 14 2005, 02:37 PM
- - Metallica   I had a look at the code on that site. As long as ...   Jun 14 2005, 02:38 PM
|- - bloomcounty   QUOTE(Metallica @ Jun 14 2005, 01:38 PM)I had...   Jun 14 2005, 02:43 PM
- - Metallica   The hard drive spinning would mean something is be...   Jun 15 2005, 12:08 AM
|- - bloomcounty   QUOTE(Metallica @ Jun 14 2005, 11:08 PM)The h...   Jun 15 2005, 10:11 AM
- - Metallica   Hard to tell. If it connects automatically, it cou...   Jun 15 2005, 11:46 AM
|- - bloomcounty   QUOTE(Metallica @ Jun 15 2005, 10:46 AM)Hard ...   Jun 15 2005, 12:00 PM
- - bloomcounty   Metallica, I now have installed AVG and ZoneAlarm...   Jun 20 2005, 01:36 PM
- - Bazzrr   Not sure if you have taken this further, but have ...   Jul 20 2005, 06:35 AM
- - bloomcounty   QUOTE(Bazzrr @ Jul 20 2005, 05:35 AM)Not sure...   Jul 26 2005, 10:08 AM

 

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