Yes, I noticed similar results with the latest Spybot update. I think the
Spybot people are doing their best though. Unlike some other people jumping
on the Spyware/Adware bandwagon.

How about this one:

After running scans with the latest updates of Webroot SpySweeper and
Ad-Aware SE Pro, which both told me my machine totally clean, I decided to
test a new program called PestBlock.

The PestBlock scanner told me that it had detected "753 Pests" on my
machine.

On further examination, NONE of these "Pests" were actually Spyware or
Adware.

The PestBlock scanner picked up all the files and registry entries for
programs like FlashGet,
Bearshare Pro, LimeWire Pro and Kazaa Lite etc.

I found this peculiar because the registered versions of these programs
(which I have) contain no Spyware or Adware at all.

I wonder how many inexperienced users have been frightened into performing
totally unnecessary "clean-ups" by programs scan results like this?


"David Wright Sr." <dwrightsr@alltel.net> wrote in message
news:Xns96365ECB4F849nokvamli@213.155.197.138...
> The latest update of Spybot 2005-04-08 is finding about 30 entries or so
> in
> my hosts file and calling them Coolwebsearch.Smartm? and another which I
> don't recall at the moment. I am using a combination of MVPS Hosts and
> HPGuru
> Hosts. All of these are redirected, of course, to 127.0.0.1.
>
> Just FYI
>
> --
> David Wright Sr.
> Have you ever stopped to think, and
> forgot to start again?
> To e-mail me, remove 't' from dwrightsr