hashioki..
SpywareDetector has had a less than desirable past. It used to be on, "The Spyware Warrior List of Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites", but was de-listed in 2006. (It's listed as SpywareDetector.net and also SpywareDetector.com)
Spybot was also detecting it as rogue. There's a thread at the Spybot forum titled, " Spyware Detector on Malware list". When the thread was created in July of 2006, "Yodama" a member of the Spybot Team wrote, "the reason why SpywareDetector is listed as Malware is that it can get installed without userconsent along with a Smithfraud-C infection. So basically SpywareDectector will find an infection on your computer, an infection that came along with it. Then they charge you to remove the infection they are responsible for".
According to the same Spybot Team member, Spybot is no longer detecting it. Max Secure was supposed to have "cleaned up their act" and practices. Since the above thread was first created, I see someone posted a couple of weeks ago, expressing concerns that Spybot detected SpywareDetector on their system. I really don't know what is fact, as I haven't looked into it. What I do know is that there are plenty of good programs, which don't have this sort of past. (See the sticky at the top of the forum)
You wrote that you uninstalled the software. RogueRemover Free used to detect it, stating it "uses false advertising and fake comments on blog websites to promote their product". It still might detect it. Why not scan with it and see if it finds any additional files? It won't cost you anything.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/rogueremover.php
Best of luck to you..
Carol
My computer is Fujitsu Siemens , 1GB RAM , Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU ,
540 @ 1.8 GHz , running Windows Vista Home Basic .
I tried this software on a Friday night and was impressed , first I tried a quick scan then a full scan , it found about 20,000 threats . I purchased it and decided to run it over night with an anti virus scan (Avira) .
On Saturday morning I quarantined the threats and restarted my computer as instructed. When the start up screens appeared there was one I had not seen before . Then a completely different desk top appeared to my normal one . the background colour,wallpaper and icon size had all changed.
Three internet radio programs out of about 7 stopped working , some keys no longer gave the correct characters,toolbars and home pages were no longer present .
Other irritations occured , when un zipping a file I could not close it afterwards without getting an error message , I had to close them using the task manager.
I could not double click on a photograph in a file and view them one by one , instead I had an error message telling me to search the internet or computer for the program to do this.
I contacted maxpcsecure who told me to do another full scan , quarantine and restart then scan again ,log it and send it to them , I should get a reply on Monday.
But every time I scanned,quarantined and restarted (which is meant to clear all threats) on rescanning (even when not connected to the internet ) it still found 20,000 threats .
I uninstalled this software and now have a stable computer , on re-installing the 3 internet radios which were affected (Audials-1,Online radio tuner and Replay AV
I have had little success . Replay AV8 now starts and is ok , Online radio tuner wil not start and Audials-1 will not start but will run as Radiotracker Platinum version (a simpler version).
Before I ran this program I used Microsofts Malware ,Spybot and Adaware free version and had no problems . All the free internet radio programs I have were totally unaffected it was only the more complex purchased ones that were disrupted .
Maybe Microsofts malware program does not perform as well as other products in tests , finding as many threats , but perhaps it picks up the more important ones and is more stable and reliable ?
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