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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New FARR Plugin: FCalc
« Last post by IainB on December 11, 2009, 11:25 PM »I just installed this. Thanks mouser!
Seems like a very nice calculator.
Seems like a very nice calculator.
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A Peek at MSRT November Threat Reports - here.I just emailed the feedback bit (above post) to MS at their MSE website. They probably don't need the feedback. Whilst I was there I saw the above (quoted). Read the rest of it at the link - it makes for pretty interesting reading. There's also on that site a link to Windows 7 consumer security software providers
By continuing to include new variants of the existing threat families, the MSRT has removed malware from more than 1.5 million machines three days after its release on 10 November. This month we’ve also added Win32/FakeVimes and Win32/PrivacyCenter to the MSRT detection and have removed these new rogues from more than 110,000 machines.
"Microsoft Security Essentials updates your virus & spyware definitions automatically to help protect your computer"I read a Lifehacker post yesterday about how someone had written a proggy to force MSE to update its virus profiles on a regular basis. That would seem to be a redundant app. They apparently thought that MSE only updated with MS Update, and that if you had not got MS Update on auto, then your virus profiles would not get updated. That looks like a wrong assumption, as MSE seems to persistently attempt auto-update (if connected to the internet) if its virus profiles are >24 hours old. If it has not been able to connect to the internet and update, then after >24 hrs elapsed, it's systray icon goes a reddish-brown colour (normally, it is green) and if you open the control window there is more of the reddish-brown colour and it says its virus profiles need updating, so you can reconnect to the internet and then press the "Update" button to force an immediate update.
...but when I downloaded it, MSE reported that "unlocker1.8.8.exe" contains TrojanClicker:Win32/Yabector.AI didn't read the MSE report closely enough. When I did, what it actually said was "unlocker1.8.7.exe contains TrojanClicker:Win32/Yabector.A" - i.e., it kept using the old file version name, even though I had given it v1.8.8 to analyse. I repeated this, changing the file name to "Fred" etc. each time, but always the report was for v1.8.7.
...it seems to have only been developed for Office 2007.
Other than that, it certainly is buggy.- because it's working fine in my Office 2007 now, as per my post above:
So, I suspect that something was blocking the Add-In from working and CCleaner removed the blockage.
I also sent an email to the author of Unlocker with a snapshot of the MSE details screen describing the Trojan that MSE had found in the Unlocker install file.
...it is just the promotional add-on they have stupidly chosen to include.(My emphasis.)
Yes, I wish Iain had uploaded the files to VirusTotal before deleting them, but I can totally understand his "get these files off my PC *NOW*!" reaction.Anything to oblige!
As it is a long weekend here in NZ and because I am very curious about such things, I took the time to search out those infected files from my backup drive and then run them through MSE and submit them to Total Response as you had suggested.
"You might be confusing the Microsoft Indexing Service with Windows Search. The FARR Windows Search plugin will let you query the Windows (Desktop) Search index, which I think is different to the Indexing Service. I have Windows Search running and to be honest I don't think it is influencing my machine's performance noticeably. I have the indexing service disabled as well by the way."Well, it seems that maybe I was not confusing things after all, and that the Indexing Service is involved. This is how I found out:
). One of the processes that would sometimes be thus affected was the Windows Explorer shell! This problem continued to manifest itself even whilst GDS was completely disabled.
