SuperAntiSpyware question

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri May 30, 2008 8:06 pm

While I have used this before, I'm a little suspicious of a recent scan.

Was working on a PC and SAS wanted to update so I did and then I ran a complete scan.

....close to 4000 detections found!

The PC itself never exhibted any problems (to me) I scanned with Sophos(barf) and Kaspersky Online and nothing found.

False postives perhaps?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri May 30, 2008 8:32 pm

Hard to say. I mean 4k is high, but not unheard of. I've never run into a false positive with it.

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Fri May 30, 2008 8:47 pm

Were they registry entries? It could be left over junk in the registry, if so that would explain why the antivirus programs detected nothing.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Fri May 30, 2008 8:55 pm

screen shot of what it found? I've seen that many things found before.. I even had one well over 10k once. But I've never seen superantispyware pick up anything false.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri May 30, 2008 9:04 pm

mnosteele52 wrote:Were they registry entries? It could be left over junk in the registry, if so that would explain why the antivirus programs detected nothing.

No mostly files and shortcuts. The thing is I went looking for those files it found and could not find them.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri May 30, 2008 9:06 pm

Sava700 wrote:screen shot of what it found?

I wish I would have done that.

Thing is you would think the PC would act weird with what was found and someone would tell me.....

......Oh I forgot I don't talk to that person.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri May 30, 2008 9:10 pm

CableDude wrote:Thing is you would think the PC would act weird with what was found and someone would tell me.....

Not in all cases.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri May 30, 2008 9:20 pm

Going to have to keep better watch on this.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri May 30, 2008 9:23 pm

CableDude wrote:Going to have to keep better watch on this.

I take it she's not cute.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri May 30, 2008 9:25 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:I take it she's not cute.

You are correct good sir.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri May 30, 2008 9:25 pm

CableDude wrote:
False postives perhaps?

Lotsa cookies?

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri May 30, 2008 9:26 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Lotsa cookies?

Somewhat. Between firefox and IE 7

I wish I took a damn screenshot of what was found.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Fri May 30, 2008 10:45 pm

do you think it might have found what was already cleaned by another program(residue) before you re-booted?

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sat May 31, 2008 7:37 am

loop2kil wrote:do you think it might have found what was already cleaned by another program(residue) before you re-booted?

Not sure. I know I scanned this PC a month or so ago and didn't find anything out of the ordinary. I think most of the users (about 5) on this PC use firefox.

It seems SAS had some kind of major update to the program.

On a somewhat related note. Can I disable the clearing of history on IE? As I said I want to keep a better eye on this PC.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sat May 31, 2008 10:27 am

I would suggest a crap cleaner run too.. go here and get it cause you can extract it to a folder like on a thumb drive and run it from the folder without installing it on the machine..works great!
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download5735.html

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sat May 31, 2008 10:51 am

Sava700 wrote:I would suggest a crap cleaner run too.. go here and get it cause you can extract it to a folder like on a thumb drive and run it from the folder without installing it on the machine..works great!
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download5735.html

Great. will give it a shot on Tuesday.

OSULLY · Post by **OSULLY** » Sat May 31, 2008 1:17 pm

It did the same thing to me recently after an update. Also notice Adaware 2008 doesn't pick up as many cookies.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sat May 31, 2008 11:22 pm

I recall there were several rootkits picked up too.

I just wish I could have seen the actual files and timestamps.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 1:32 am

CableDude wrote:I recall there were several rootkits picked up too.

I just wish I could have seen the actual files and timestamps.

yeah I know... if you don't keep up man I'm going to have to lock you out of my oil refinery

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 4:16 pm

Just scanned my machine 232 found (231 cookies 1 file) Was able to see the file. Uploaded to kaspersky and it is:

Scanned file: b122.exe - Infected
b122.exe - infected by not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Rond.c

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:04 pm

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:06 pm

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:29 pm

You've got some cleaning to do young Jedi!
A couple of real baddies in there in the latter half of those screenies!

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:34 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:

You've got some cleaning to do young Jedi!
A couple of real baddies in there in the latter half of those screenies!

I would love to know where that all came from and who is responsible for it.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:13 pm

CableDude wrote:I would love to know where that all came from and who is responsible for it.

All those brunette sites. lol

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:12 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:All those brunette sites. lol

Lol. But it's not my PC.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 9:11 pm

CableDude wrote:Great. will give it a shot on Tuesday.

Regained about 1.2 GB of space.

blacklab · Post by **blacklab** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:16 pm

Don't forget to check the hidden cookies Adobe FlashPlayer keeps. They don't get removed by most cleaners.