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Posted by alfresco on March 19, 2006, 11:58 pm
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> I installed the free version just to check whether Ad-aware, Trojan
> Hunter and Windows Defender have found everything (actually they find
> very little). Spyware Doctor came up with 46 items on the first scan
> (and left an empty log file). The infection name for about 38 of
> thesewas called "SpywareCleaner".
>
> It also listed "Rogue Anti-Spyware Products" 3x.
>
> It did mention that something I posted earlier was called a System Sleuth
> Keylogger from DivineDownloads.com.
>
>
> The file was named:
> _42fe7987.exe
>
> and it was in this directory:
> c:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Microsoft\Installer
> \
>
>
> None of the other programs picked this up. It said the risk was high.
> I manually deleted a few items from the drive and the registry and the
> next scan showed nothing.
>
> However, the program was such a memory hog and insinuated itself into so
> many other programs, that I had to delete it. My Outlook express was
> hanging as was my IE 6.
>
> I then did a Regseeker scan and found numerous instances of dll files
> from Spyware Doctor still in the registry after rebooting. This dll file
> was in the registry as were others associated with the program.
> \Spyware Doctor\chilkatxml.dll
>
>
> My advice is to get about three or four good registry cleaning programs
> (Regseeker, Regscrub, and the Spybot and CCleaner tools are good). Even
> PC Tools Registry Mechanic isn't bad, but I noticed it forced itself into
> my startup programs in the registry.
>
I have NO problem with Spyware Doctor, possibly because I have 512 mb
of RAM. Big Al.
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