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Old 01-04-2007, 03:54 AM
justjohnnygo
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Re: Why is PC Bug Doctor a spyware threat?


Dear Malke

Thankyou for your advice. I will attempt to contact Ewido.

tx again justjohnnygo

caver1 Wrote:
> Malke wrote:-
> justjohnnygo wrote:
> -
> Dear sir/Madam,
>
> Why is PC Bug Doctor a spyware threat?
>
> After almost a year of being compatible with Ewido anti-spyware, PC
> Bug Doctor[ for which I paid a lifetomes subscription] has been
> identified by Ewido Anti-spyware as a threat. It removed 217 traces
> of
> PC Bug Doctor from my pc.
>
> Has anyone else been aware of the danger of PC Bug Doctor? Or is it
> Ewido? Ewido has never identified PC Bug Doctor as a threat before.
> Help/advice please.-
>
> Why don't you ask Ewido? Most of those "scan your PC for errors"
> programs are garbage and do more harm than good, but that doesn't
> mean
> they are malware. Anyway, your next step is to contact Ewido tech
> support since this isn't an Windows issue.
>
> Malke-
> you will have to check with Ewido but it is a possibility that Ewido
>
> is "seeing" PC Bug Doctor's signatures as the threat. They aren't but
>
> maybe they aren't encoded well enough for Ewido not to see them so you
>
> are getting false positives. This has happened with Panda's sigs in the
>
> past.





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Old 01-04-2007, 03:54 AM