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wyrmrider

Recent "upgrade to Zone Alarm included spyware Killer bundle

http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/promotions/spywaredetector/offer.html

I ran on line scan
scanned 3610 files
1805 keys
it may have crashed or not finished it ran so quickly but it "found"

Link Grabber
Bonzi buddy
I Get Net

14 items

ran it again same results

will not clean
No details on locations
sorta worthless

Wyrmrider

wawadave · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 1:40 pm Post subject:

yes its rather useless. wonder what they were thinking?.....
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herbalist · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:38 pm Post subject:

Tried out that "scanner". It targeted what appears to be windows media player. Couldn't tell for sure as I couldn't see the whole key, but the only media players I have are the original windows media player and an old version of winamp, and they are clean.
Looks like nothing more than an advertising ploy. What concerns me is seeing ZA bundled with it. Is this an indication of what to expect from ZA in the future?
Rick

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wyrmrider · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 8:08 pm Post subject: misleading false positives

perhaps Spyware Killer should be returned to the rouge list due to partial keys
lack of abality to audit by checking registry
false positives pushing sales

wyrmider

send nastygrams to zone labs

eburger68 · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 9:14 pm Post subject:

Hi All:

If you have screenshots or scan logs documenting the problems you've encountered, please send them to me or Suzi. I can be reached at:

eburger68@myrealbox.com

Best,

Eric L. Howes

herbalist · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 9:47 pm Post subject:

Eric,
It was their online scanner i used. No log files. Screenshots would have been useless as I couldn't expand it to see the whole key it displayed, just the first half of it. It gave no useful information. I just ran it to see what it would show.
Rick

suzi · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:30 pm Post subject:

I just ran the SpywareKiller online scanner too. No log but I did manage to get this screenshot:

Out of the 27 fiiles, 11 were cookies (which were not flagged by Ad-aware, Spybot S&D or GIANT btw), 2 were the Windows Media shown and the rest were supposedly BonziBuddy, which are false positives.

I just went through a discussion about these same reg files that they are calling BonziBuddy with another vendor that targeted them. After the other vendor's development team looked deeper into the entries, they found out that they can be related to BonziBuddy but are also used for other purposes, quite legitimate ones, and should not be targeted. They were then removed from that vendor's detections.
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Bjerrk · Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 2:04 am Post subject:

Pretty crappy eh?

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