I’m not familiar with this software. Just run a quick scan with it and it detected a supposed to be bad registry key. It’s a microsoft key, so I doubt it’s spyware (although ;D )…unless it’s been modified by spyware stuff; anyway, what do you guys think ? it’s not detected by anything else (SAS tells there’s nothing…)
the malwarebyte forum thread tells the key should be left set to “1” if in Vista.
edit: oh OK, the thread you link to is about win7, I’ll have a further look then…say again it’s a false positive in Vista 64, should be the same in 7/64…
what’s your username there ?
anyway avast never detected it for me, neither avast 4 nor 5 , and MSE neither. the thing is I’ll never know if it’s set by default to 1 (noactivedesktopchanges) or not…
it’s been coded like that by MS themselves for the misc testing builds of Win7…anyway, active desktop is not something I ever used, except once when it got released years ago ;D It could be a security to leave it disabled.
just a question: when the registry was detected, the scan was interrupted, and when I clicked on “ignore” and attempted to close the UI I had the message that the scan was running…but it wasn’t…weird. Also, it seems the app is using a lot of CPU during a scan.
thanks for the feedback; I guess I’m just used to Avast 4 that could do a full scan without eating too much resource. Noticed avast 5 beta was also rather resource demanding when scanning.