Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Superantispyware attacked my Search and destroy????(pretty funny)?

i was doing my routinely virus scans and i first used Spybot Search and Destroy and then i removed what i had to remove and so then i scanned Super Anti-Spyware and it actually stole the quarintes from Spybot and quarintined it under itself. Whats up with this???



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This is because SpyBot quarantines are protected zip archives, containing the original spyware. Superantispyware is able to scan these archives, but since it is password protected it cannot clean them, so the best way is to quarantine the whole archive.



The best way to prevent this is to add the SpyBot quarantine folder to the Excluded Folders list



- Click on Preferences,



- then on Scanning Control



- and then on Manage Excluded Folders



- Click on Add and locate the SpyBot Quarantine folder, normally located at



C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Spybot - Search %26 Destroy



http://www.cybertopcops.com/



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Super probably detected the spyware signatures in the SpyBot S%26D quarantine files, and reacted accordingly. To avoid having the same thing happen in the future, you should have SpyBot delete malware outright, instead of just quarantining the offending files.



EDIT - I like cybertop's answer better than mine ... you should take his advice and tell Super to leave SpyBot's quarantine folders alone, and vice versa. Excluding the program folders might be a good idea as well.

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