Antispyware

[Roger K]

Been trying out MS (Giant) AntiSpyware beta and though it looks useful I
have a niggle. There are four other users on my PC, each with their own IE
home pages. Every time they log on they see several pop-ups telling them
they aren't using _my_ home page. I can set them all on mine and get them
to start IE from shortcuts to their preferred URLs, or get them all on
Firefox, but it's a bit irritating that there isn't more flexibility built
in.

Roger

[Alan Walker]

Post by Roger K
Been trying out MS (Giant) AntiSpyware beta and though it looks
useful I have a niggle. There are four other users on my PC, each
with their own IE home pages. Every time they log on they see several
pop-ups telling them they aren't using _my_ home page. I can set
them all on mine and get them to start IE from shortcuts to their
preferred URLs, or get them all on Firefox, but it's a bit irritating
that there isn't more flexibility built in.
Roger

Recommended fix is Firefox :-)

[Mark McIntyre]

On Sun, 22 May 2005 12:06:49 GMT, "Alan Walker"

Post by Alan Walker

Post by Roger K
Been trying out MS (Giant) AntiSpyware beta and though it looks
useful I have a niggle. There are four other users on my PC, each
with their own IE home pages. Every time they log on they see several
pop-ups telling them they aren't using _my_ home page. I can set
them all on mine and get them to start IE from shortcuts to their
preferred URLs, or get them all on Firefox, but it's a bit irritating
that there isn't more flexibility built in.
Roger

Recommended fix is Firefox :-)

Won't necessarily work - the Anti Spyware s/w I use does the same very
annoying thing, when different users log in, and I'm using Firefox
exclusively.

Seems the writers of these software products apparently didn't
consider multi-user environments, which is fairly dim.

[ian]

Post by Roger K
Been trying out MS (Giant) AntiSpyware beta and though it looks useful I
have a niggle. There are four other users on my PC, each with their own IE
home pages. Every time they log on they see several pop-ups telling them
they aren't using _my_ home page. I can set them all on mine and get them
to start IE from shortcuts to their preferred URLs, or get them all on
Firefox, but it's a bit irritating that there isn't more flexibility built
in.
Roger

The whole thing isn't very 'clever' in the way it works.
Apparently (and I acknowledge I don't have the source to hand), some of the
real-time agent thingies use a text file 'white list' to decide what should
be allowed to run and to prompt.

Eg. c:\nicescript.vbs is allowed to run.
c:\virus.vbs would prompt, and lets assume a user says 'always block'

Lets say that somehow* mr virus writer discovers the contents of the
whitelist that MS AntiSW uses, finds that c:\nicescript is allowed to run,
and renames his virus.vbs to nicescript.vbs

When the user clicks on that again, it would go "okies no problem off you
go". Ie. it only checks the 'whitelist' it has and NOT what actions the
script will take, or any sort of heauristics scanning to detect nasty
scripts.


Ian

*not sure how....