Twain Tech and Pest Patrol

Larry, recently ad-aware found two "data miners" on my pc. As removing them led to me being denied access to the net I put them in ignore as possible false positives.

Trying to find out more about them I downloaded the free versions of pestpatrol, sweeper and a trojan finder. pestpatrol found twain tech and spediabar. When I went to pp's site to find out what they were and manually remove them, I found that the entries in task manager and registry to be deleted did not exist.

The trojan finder Xoft found 5 objects no other system found. Sweeper found none. The fact is that all these systems throw up false positives. I have forgotten the site, but if you put "PestPatrol" and "false positives" in Google you will find that some users damn PP as the worst "false Positive" system and not to be trusted.

Cheers

got this reply from another forum
For Twain-Tech was this what Pest Patrol found?

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{000020DD-C72E-4113-AF77-DD56626C6C42}

If that's what it found and the value of the key is "Compatibility Flags REG_DWORD 0x00000400 (1024)"

It's a Kill-bit set by Spyware Blaster to prevent the install of Twain-Tech and is a false positive in Pest Patrol.

It seems that the various spy, trojan and adaware systems pick up each others fixes and report them as parasites.

There was a SpyBot S&D example the other day.

http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6132-0.html?forumID=32&threadID=34135&messageID=393502

Always check before deleting registry entries put forward as parasites, and backup or quarantine them rather than remove them complely from your pc.