defender false positive

Discussion in 'SpywareBlaster & Other Forum' started by melboy, Jun 20, 2008.

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  1. melboy

    melboy Registered Member

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    Windows Defender removed SpywareBlaster citing spywareblaster.exe as:
    Trojan win32/agent.
    threat: severe
    advice: remove harmful software
     
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    melboy, Jun 20, 2008
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  2. ronjor

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  3. melboy

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    thanks for the link, submitted!

    i've got round it temporarly by adding Spyareblaster.exe in the do not scan this location part of defender under options
     
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    Good deal.
     
    ronjor, Jun 20, 2008
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  5. melboy

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    Quick reply from Microsoft!:D

    ~Private communication removed. According to Microsoft, the FP has been corrected and the update to the definitions will include the fix. - Ron~
     
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  6. ronjor

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    Thanks for the feedback melboy. :)
     
    ronjor, Jun 20, 2008
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  7. melboy

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    no problem!:D
     
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  8. cuncle39

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    Still no correction at this hour. Maybe tomorrow!
     
    cuncle39, Jun 20, 2008
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  9. crofty

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    Hi all

    I have just manually updated "Windows Defender"), with definition version 1.35.628.0.
    I no longer get any alerts from Windows defender.

    Cheers
     
    crofty, Jun 21, 2008
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  10. ahulett

    ahulett Spyware Expert

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    We're in the process of updating our products' definitions to correct this issue. You should be able to pull new Forefront and Windows Defender definitions that no longer detect SpywareBlaster either via Windows Update / Microsoft Update or direct from our security portal at http://www.microsoft.com/av

    Aaron
     
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    ahulett, Jun 21, 2008
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  11. cuncle39

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    Thanks Aaron, just downloaded definitions version 1.35.628.0 via the portal and ran a quick scan. No problems!!
     
    cuncle39, Jun 21, 2008
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