Pest Patrol Finding

[wg bradley]

Hi all.

I ran Pestpatrol's free demo version and it found a "password cracker"
entry. The demo version of PestPatrol of course doesn't remove these
things.

The cracking prog is called "Final Ares Complete Edition".

Pestpatrol singled out the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes/catalyst.socketctrl.1" as evidence
of this cracker's presence.

I can't find much info on this prog. Is it ok to just delete this
registry entry? Would that be effective? Should there be other related
files on my computer somewhere? If so, how do I find them?

Thanks!

[Dick Hazeleger]

wg bradley wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I ran Pestpatrol's free demo version and it found a "password
> cracker" entry. The demo version of PestPatrol of course doesn't
> remove these things.
>
> The cracking prog is called "Final Ares Complete Edition".
>
> Pestpatrol singled out the registry key
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes/catalyst.socketctrl.1" as
> evidence of this cracker's presence.
>
> I can't find much info on this prog. Is it ok to just delete this
> registry entry? Would that be effective? Should there be other
> related files on my computer somewhere? If so, how do I find them?
>
> Thanks!

Why not get a second opinion, and run another program like NOD or
TDS3 (make sure you update those after installation)... I've seen
free "detection" software before that "found" something... and I
wonder whether this is a trick to lure you into buying the full
product!

Dick

[Jay T. Blocksom]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 06:49:20 GMT, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "wg bradley"
<wgb@bogus.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> I ran Pestpatrol's free demo version and it found a "password cracker"
> entry. The demo version of PestPatrol of course doesn't remove these
> things.
>
[snip]

PestPatrol is blatant spamware, promoted and sold by a frothing loon:

<http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=9ftp43%243g8%240%40216.39.174.41&rnum=1& prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26q%3DPestPatrol%2Bgroup%253Anews.admin.net-abuse.email%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch>

Please do not support or recommend it.

--

Jay T. Blocksom
--------------------------------
Appropriate Technology, Inc.
usenet01[at]appropriate-tech.net


"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
NOTE: E-Mail address in "From:" line is INVALID! Remove +SPAMBLOCK to mail.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Unsolicited advertising sent to this E-Mail address is expressly prohibited
under USC Title 47, Section 227. Violators are subject to charge of up to
$1,500 per incident or treble actual costs, whichever is greater.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -