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Robin Bignall wrote: [snip] I've stopped using A-Squared and have raised this item on their web forum. Is it possible that A-Squared is causing the problem and another program is reacting to it? IOW, perhaps A-squared is not itself bringing up the boxes, but another program inter-reacting with it. Just thinking out loud. Buffalo PS: Long thread and easy to miss something. |
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On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:35:00 -0500, "David H. Lipman"
wrote: From: "Robin Bignall" | I don't know. I've stopped using A-Squared and have raised this item | on their web forum. | -- | Robin | (BrE) | Herts, England Did 'ShadowPuterDude' reply/respond ? If not, please send me an email of the posted URL and I will have him give your A-Squared thread due attention. http://support.emsisoft.com/topic/11...__gopid__5462& That gets to my latest post on the group, but it won't help much as I'm not going to go through the folderol they're suggesting: I've simply uninstalled A-Squared. -- Robin (BrE) Herts, England |
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From: "Robin Bignall"
| On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:35:00 -0500, "David H. Lipman" | wrote: From: "Robin Bignall" | I don't know. I've stopped using A-Squared and have raised this item | on their web forum. | -- | Robin | (BrE) | Herts, England Did 'ShadowPuterDude' reply/respond ? If not, please send me an email of the posted URL and I will have him give your A-Squared thread due attention. | http://support.emsisoft.com/topic/11...__gopid__5462& | That gets to my latest post on the group, but it won't help much as | I'm not going to go through the folderol they're suggesting: I've | simply uninstalled A-Squared. | -- | Robin | (BrE) | Herts, England OK got it... -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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Robin Bignall wrote: [snip] http://support.emsisoft.com/topic/11...__gopid__5462& That gets to my latest post on the group, but it won't help much as I'm not going to go through the folderol they're suggesting: I've simply uninstalled A-Squared. Well maybe A-Squared will stop their 'defensive' attitude and try to improve their product. I thought they responded to you like you were a beginning computer user. Have a Happy New Year, Buffalo |
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Buffalo wrote: Robin Bignall wrote: [snip] http://support.emsisoft.com/topic/11...__gopid__5462& That gets to my latest post on the group, but it won't help much as I'm not going to go through the folderol they're suggesting: I've simply uninstalled A-Squared. Well maybe A-Squared will stop their 'defensive' attitude and try to improve their product. I thought they responded to you like you were a beginning computer user. Have a Happy New Year, Buffalo PS: And a female blonde to boot!! Buffalo |
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The Real Truth MVP wrote: I've read your posts there and the replies. No matter how many times you tell them they will not see past an infection. You are right to just uninstall it but I would send an email to Christian Mairoll the company CEO since this is not a malware issue but a software programming issue. Don't waste your time again starting from scratch. [snip] That actually makes a lot of sense. Wow, congratulations, Real Truth MVP. Buffalo |
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"Kevin Zoll" wrote in message om... In article , says... I've read your posts there and the replies. No matter how many times you tell them they will not see past an infection. You are right to just uninstall it but I would send an email to Christian Mairoll the company CEO since this is not a malware issue but a software programming issue. Don't waste your time again starting from scratch. A security application is set to delete index.dat on system boot. A- squared Anti-Malware is seeing this and alerting to the suspicious activity. Then why would the message say: "...could not be removed. file is no longer existent" if A-squared wasn't trying to remove the file itself? Why try to remove a non-existent file? Why not check for the existence of a file before trying to remove it and generating such an error message. Why would the programmatical deletion of a browsing history file be considered suspicious activity? I'm tempted to agree with the software thief on this one. |
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In article , erratic
@nomail.afraid.org says... "Kevin Zoll" wrote in message om... In article , says... I've read your posts there and the replies. No matter how many times you tell them they will not see past an infection. You are right to just uninstall it but I would send an email to Christian Mairoll the company CEO since this is not a malware issue but a software programming issue. Don't waste your time again starting from scratch. A security application is set to delete index.dat on system boot. A- squared Anti-Malware is seeing this and alerting to the suspicious activity. Then why would the message say: "...could not be removed. file is no longer existent" if A-squared wasn't trying to remove the file itself? Why try to remove a non-existent file? Why not check for the existence of a file before trying to remove it and generating such an error message. Why would the programmatical deletion of a browsing history file be considered suspicious activity? I'm tempted to agree with the software thief on this one. The problem is that another security application deletes the non- malicious history file at system start. Which in turn triggers A- squared. A-Squared wrongly sees this as malicious activity. I know what index.dat is and I know who Butts is, and his unethical practices. The alteration, deletion, creation and replacement of files at system start is very common with malware. Security applications should monitor this kind of system activity. Why A-squared is even trying to delete index.dat is beyond me, and is something I will be discussing with the developers. However, the point here is that one security application is doing one thing while the other security application is doing another. Conflicting with each other. A-squared Anti-Malware has both an AV engine and an AS engine. People shouldn't be running 2 resident AVs. Kaspersky and A2AM are known to interfere with each other. Something I would like to know is if beta udpates was enabled. There a serval changes forth coming in A2AM and if the user has beta updates enabled or disabled would be nice to know. I normally don't post in news groups. Since David pointed this out too me the other night, I took the time to read this thread and the one at the EMSI Support forums. I will be bringing this to Christian's and/or Fabian's attention, as soon as I can catch either or both on IM. |
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"Kevin Zoll" wrote in message
om... [...] The problem is that another security application deletes the non- malicious history file at system start. Which in turn triggers A- squared. A-Squared wrongly sees this as malicious activity. I know what index.dat is and I know who Butts is, and his unethical practices. Thanks for responding. I wouldn't fault AČ for alerting to "suspicious" activity as well as malicious activity, but those messages do seem to indicate that an attempted deleting of an already deleted file is the problem. The alteration, deletion, creation and replacement of files at system start is very common with malware. Security applications should monitor this kind of system activity. Why A-squared is even trying to delete index.dat is beyond me, and is something I will be discussing with the developers. Please do share with us whatever information you can. However, the point here is that one security application is doing one thing while the other security application is doing another. Conflicting with each other. Yes, and the discussion the OP had with support outside of usenet did indicate this as well (others may have missed that part). I, too, see this as a case of too many antispyware (privacy) programs causing conflict by trying to affect the same resources (as well as "overkill"). It just seemed to me that checking for the existence (if...then) of the file prior to attempting to delete it would resolve this conflict. A-squared Anti-Malware has both an AV engine and an AS engine. People shouldn't be running 2 resident AVs. Kaspersky and A2AM are known to interfere with each other. Something I would like to know is if beta udpates was enabled. There a serval changes forth coming in A2AM and if the user has beta updates enabled or disabled would be nice to know. Hopefully the OP will read your post and respond on that point. I normally don't post in news groups. Since David pointed this out too me the other night, I took the time to read this thread and the one at the EMSI Support forums. I will be bringing this to Christian's and/or Fabian's attention, as soon as I can catch either or both on IM. Thanks for participating, it is nice to have knowledgeable posters join in. |
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On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:09:08 -0500, Kevin Zoll
wrote: In article , erratic says... "Kevin Zoll" wrote in message om... In article , says... I've read your posts there and the replies. No matter how many times you tell them they will not see past an infection. You are right to just uninstall it but I would send an email to Christian Mairoll the company CEO since this is not a malware issue but a software programming issue. Don't waste your time again starting from scratch. A security application is set to delete index.dat on system boot. A- squared Anti-Malware is seeing this and alerting to the suspicious activity. Then why would the message say: "...could not be removed. file is no longer existent" if A-squared wasn't trying to remove the file itself? Why try to remove a non-existent file? Why not check for the existence of a file before trying to remove it and generating such an error message. Why would the programmatical deletion of a browsing history file be considered suspicious activity? I'm tempted to agree with the software thief on this one. The problem is that another security application deletes the non- malicious history file at system start. Which in turn triggers A- squared. A-Squared wrongly sees this as malicious activity. I know what index.dat is and I know who Butts is, and his unethical practices. If some security application has deleted index.dat on startup, what exactly is restoring it? For it's certainly there after booting. The alteration, deletion, creation and replacement of files at system start is very common with malware. Security applications should monitor this kind of system activity. Why A-squared is even trying to delete index.dat is beyond me, and is something I will be discussing with the developers. However, the point here is that one security application is doing one thing while the other security application is doing another. Conflicting with each other. A-squared Anti-Malware has both an AV engine and an AS engine. People shouldn't be running 2 resident AVs. Kaspersky and A2AM are known to interfere with each other. Something I would like to know is if beta udpates was enabled. There a serval changes forth coming in A2AM and if the user has beta updates enabled or disabled would be nice to know. No, beta updates were not enabled. This is the first time I've heard that A2 is also an anti-virus product. I am now not surprised that it clashes with Kaspersky. I do not intend to uninstall the latter in favour of A2, which I bought originally as an anti-malware product. I normally don't post in news groups. Since David pointed this out too me the other night, I took the time to read this thread and the one at the EMSI Support forums. I will be bringing this to Christian's and/or Fabian's attention, as soon as I can catch either or both on IM. I shall follow the forum with interest. -- Robin (BrE) Herts, England |
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"Robin Bignall" wrote in message
... If some security application has deleted index.dat on startup, what exactly is restoring it? For it's certainly there after booting. That would be either IE or XP (not sure if one can be clearly distinguished from the other). |
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