Thanks, Andy......I will follow your suggestions.

Heather

"Andy Walker" <awalker@nspank.invalid> wrote in message
news:48c9f4cf.97967328@news.webtv.com...
> Heather wrote:
>
>>
>>"Andy Walker" <awalker@nspank.invalid> wrote in message
>>news:48c9d1a7.88967468@news.webtv.com...
>>> Heather wrote:
>>>
>>>>The fact that 2 of us are seeing the same thing become
>>>>*unprotected* strikes me as a fault of some sort in the program.
>>>>Any
>>>>comments?
>>>
>>> I've seen this type of thing happen before when another anti-spyware
>>> program sees the registry entry for a domain as threat and deletes
>>> the
>>> entry (even though the entry actually places the domain in the
>>> restricted zone). I think this has happened with Spybot Search &
>>> Destroy and Windows Defender in the past, and probably others.
>>
>>Thanks Andy.....yes, I run Spybot once a week and also
>>SuperAntiSpyware
>>every 10 days or so......so it could have been something in one of
>>them.
>>That would make sense.
>
> I ran some tests and it appears to be a problem with the immunize
> feature within Spybot. It looks like they are corrupting the key for
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Internet
> Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\5starvideos.com
>
> This causes the key to be useless for protection and SpywareBlaster
> recognizes that the key needs to be reset. You should run
> SpywareBlaster after you immunize with Spybot in order to reset the
> key until Spybot fixes the problem. I don't feel like reporting it to
> them myself so if someone else wants to, then be my guest.