Spybot False Positive?

Is this another false positive?
'Windows Security Internet Explorer'

 

Check for the information. I think it means you have IE configured in an insecure way.

 

Without a portion of what the scan report is actually showing would be somewhat tough to advise but would it happen to be something similar to the below scan result ?

If so....take a look at your Internet Explorer settings under....Tools > Internet Options > Advanced tab > Security section. See if any of the 3 below items are checked....in particular Allow active content to run in files on My Computer.

• Allow active content from CDs to run on My Computer
• Allow active content to run in files on My Computer
• Allow software to run or install even if the signature is invalid

If it's checked....un-check that item and see if it still shows up in a new scan.

Bubba

 

Greetings Bubba........when i did the scan and saw the results the first time, i had Spybot fix the problem. Later, after rebooting, i ran another spybot scan and it saw the problem again. Again i had Spybot fix the problem. It was at this point that i posted. After reading your post i checked IE and all was unchecked as you suggested. I then ran a third Spybot scan and it found nothing. All rather curious as i know that i have always had said boxes unchecked...........anywho, thanks for responding.

 

Rainwalker,
On reading your post I felt i needed to mention about a similar problem with shows up after Spybot scan. ' windows antivirus notification disable dword=0'

this keeps coming up almost every time i run the spybot scan...

cheers
The Saintlygent

 

It means you've disabled Windows Security Center notifying you about your anti-virus status.

Either enable the notification, or right click the entry and select "Exclude from future scans".

This is not malware, just a setting you don't have configured to Spybot's liking.

 

Thanks all ...