Spybot Warning

External Since: Aug 16, 2007 Posts: 42

Not to butt in here, 'but', there is no such thing as, "> Personally I am
not concerned, with my pc being fully protected at all
times.<"..........referring, to the 'fully protected' part. If this were
true, the Pentagon would be calling on you for tips.
I have seen no other reports about the 'malicious code' you mentioned and I
have not witnessed it on either machine in this house. Admittedly, this
sounds like a ploy used by unscrupulous vendors to peddle a product,
however, you seem to be alone in the warning. Did the warning come from the
Spybot app?? If so, (and if it were mine), I would be doing some serious
searching. JMHO, I could be wrong.
Heirloom, old and buttin'in

> Yeah, you tried allright, which can't be said of 'the canada goose'.
> I was determined to install ubuntu, but my system simply will not accept
> it.
> But that is, as they say: "water down the drain".
> All that really matters is, things are 'perfectly aligned' in my sphere.
> <H>.
>
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>> --
>> Alias
>> To email me, remove shoes
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External Since: Mar 07, 2006 Posts: 1213

"Heirloom" <roland58XX DeleteThis @suddenlink.net> wrote in message
news:OnAt9ec8HHA.5160@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Not to butt in here, 'but', there is no such thing as, "> Personally I am
> not concerned, with my pc being fully protected at all
> times.<"..........referring, to the 'fully protected' part. If this were
> true, the Pentagon would be calling on you for tips.
> I have seen no other reports about the 'malicious code' you mentioned and
I
> have not witnessed it on either machine in this house. Admittedly, this
> sounds like a ploy used by unscrupulous vendors to peddle a product,
> however, you seem to be alone in the warning. Did the warning come from
the
> Spybot app?? If so, (and if it were mine), I would be doing some serious
> searching. JMHO, I could be wrong.
> Heirloom, old and buttin'in

Since you respond in such nice and civil manner, H, it answers my original
question and I can answer yours, by the same token:
when the scan finished and before I got the warning message, there was an
entry on spybot by the name "MainPean". I performed some research on this
and discovered there were other people having the same problem and probably
getting the same message. They "fixed" it with spybot and it was gone. I did
the same thing and to be sure there were no remnants, I searched my machine
and found nothing.
Supposedly this "MainPean" is a malicious "Dialer" (I thought at first it
was a necessary program in C:/WINDOWS). Don't know how it got there, but I
did have protection against it and abandoned it a little while ago, since I
never had any trouble with it before.
Appreciate your objectivity, H, thanks.

Harry.
>
>
> > Yeah, you tried allright, which can't be said of 'the canada goose'.
> > I was determined to install ubuntu, but my system simply will not accept
> > it.
> > But that is, as they say: "water down the drain".
> > All that really matters is, things are 'perfectly aligned' in my sphere.
> > <H>.
> >
> >>
> >> --
> >> Alias
> >> To email me, remove shoes
> >
> >
>
>