Re: Need recommendations on security

"Joe Gill" <joegill@[email protected]> wrote in message 
news:[email protected]...
>
> There are 2 versions running out there (MS Antispyware)...
> Both have 'Control Panels' ...
>  V1 you can click on from the system tray
>  Later version of V2 you can click from the system tray
>  Earlier version of V2 you have to start the program
>
> Rummage around and there all sorts of setting to change....
>
> Curious as to why you want to turn it off?
>
> It has been a GREAT tool....
>
> In one instance it did cleaned up a bad situation that a combination of 
> (Norton, Ad*aware, and Spybot) were oblivious too!
> I install it on all PC I cleanup, touch!
>
> By the way, if you are running the product called "Microsoft Antispyware" 
> which is V1, you may like V2 "Windows Defender" even better....
>

Thanks -- not so much adamant about turning it off exactly as to curious as 
to where it appeared from and why it was enabled automatically -- and I 
suppose getting the daily stupid message box that I have to close. The silly 
thing is that it is running on the one laptop that has no mail app installed 
and never sightsees the internet while not on my other machines.

Which by some random neural pathways reminds me that my daughter's laptop 
(not on my lan) has managed to acquire sysprotect and she can't seem to get 
rid of it. Had her do a deinstall; ran adawre, spybot and hijackthis and 
nothing interesting showed up. She says she is getting random popups -- I 
haven't seen it personally cause she can't manage to remember to bring the 
laptop over. So now I am sort of befuddled. I think it is more of a nuisance 
thing rather than a menace, but I would like to get rid of it for her 
without resorting to format drive/start all over again.  While she is 
bascially computer ignorant she has learned to follow directions very well 
and I was able to talk her thru all of the above and she did produce a 
hijackthis logfile.

At this point it has been suggested that I poke around the registry which I 
really do not want to have to do with her over the phone or via email so 
before I insist that her laptop appear in front of me,  if anyone has any 
suggestions I am all ears ....

Ellen