SpywareBlaster item unprotects itself.

[Default User]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:55:00 -0400, Andy Walker <awalker@nspank.invalid>
wrote:

>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\Curr entVersion\Internet
>Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\5starvideos.com
>


FYI



"Hi everyone,

A database update has just been released for SpywareBlaster ( 9/12/08 ),
which removes the now dead domain.

[note: the previous post refers to "5starvidios" instead of
5starvideos.com, although this is probably a typo]

Please update SpywareBlaster, and then enable all protection.
SpywareBlaster should no longer show "1 item has protection disabled" under
Restricted Sites.


There were two primary triggers here:

1.) A particular domain is now offline (not just pretending to be, as is
often the case with malicious/unwanted domains), and thus protection
against it is no longer needed. Thanks to your reports, the latest update
for SpywareBlaster takes care of this appropriately. Thus it no longer
shows "protection disabled" for the item Spybot was removing.

2.) Spybot seems to repeatedly remove protection for items no longer in its
database when you Immunize (much like older versions of SpywareDoctor used
to do, before they fixed this behavior). As was the case with
SpywareDoctor, this is unnecessary (if Spybot isn't re-adding that
particular entry, it only needs to remove it once), and can interfere with
a user's choice to re-add it themselves later (either manually or with
another program). Luckily, this should be an easy thing to tweak on
Spybot's part, and I'll see what I can do about getting in contact with
PepiMK to see if he can add it to the to-do list for a future Spybot
version.

Best regards,

-Javacool"
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=219532

[Buffalo]

Default User wrote:
> "Hi everyone,
>
> A database update has just been released for SpywareBlaster ( 9/12/08
> ), which removes the now dead domain.
>
> [note: the previous post refers to "5starvidios" instead of
> 5starvideos.com, although this is probably a typo]
>
> Please update SpywareBlaster, and then enable all protection.
> SpywareBlaster should no longer show "1 item has protection disabled"
> under Restricted Sites.
>
>
> There were two primary triggers here:
>
> 1.) A particular domain is now offline (not just pretending to be, as
> is often the case with malicious/unwanted domains), and thus
> protection against it is no longer needed. Thanks to your reports,
> the latest update for SpywareBlaster takes care of this
> appropriately. Thus it no longer shows "protection disabled" for the
> item Spybot was removing.
>
> 2.) Spybot seems to repeatedly remove protection for items no longer
> in its database when you Immunize (much like older versions of
> SpywareDoctor used to do, before they fixed this behavior). As was
> the case with SpywareDoctor, this is unnecessary (if Spybot isn't
> re-adding that particular entry, it only needs to remove it once),
> and can interfere with a user's choice to re-add it themselves later
> (either manually or with another program). Luckily, this should be an
> easy thing to tweak on Spybot's part, and I'll see what I can do
> about getting in contact with PepiMK to see if he can add it to the
> to-do list for a future Spybot version.
>
> Best regards,
>
> -Javacool"
> http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=21953

Thanks for the update on this issue.
Buffalo