Pest Patrol targeting SamSpade

I've stopped using Pest Patrol long ago, they have a history of this kind of behavior:

http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=21775

Quote from Steve Atkins, author of SamSpade in the thread:

I've recently seen a trickle of notifications by users of 'Pest Patrol' that it is claiming that SamSpade is malware. Mail to the makers of Pest Patrol has been ignored, and 'phone calls weren't returned.

Unquote

The other news is that Dell has gone into partnership with Pest Patrol:

quote from another poster in this thread:

What's truly sad is that Dell, following the outcry over its decision to prohibit its tech support personel from mentioning spyware removal tools, decided to partner with PestPatrol to sell this program to end users.

end quote

Regards - Charles

 

i have the trial installed, just for ,becouse.

Lots of false possitives, i reported these to them,, when the next updates came out all but the ultra edit was removed.

9:25 AM 11/24/2003
====================
pest called upx is actualy part of tds3 anti trojan
c:\program files\TDS3\ext.Unpk\upx.txt
PGP SIGNED MESSAGE
===
XferPro32 is reported but this is actualy part of ultraedit32 our text editor
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\.hex]
@= "UltraEdit.hex "
========
express 2.01.111
hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run[scanregistry
Ive no idea here becouse the way pest patrol uses [ a symbol
only thing I let scan our registry is windows tools.. on startup
either that or its one of the hp thing ive disabled
lwpsm32.dll,,lwpsm32.dllexpress ,,express 2.01 iii.exe None here.
well of cource scanreg.exe exists gee,
=========
dua ti choi
same key as above
taskmonitor gee ,only task monotor here is windows tools.
I guess either this one or the one above could be the hp keybourt by netropa ? but its disable anyway
checking there database. searched our pc for
taskmen.exe.exe,taskmen.exe,twain1.exe,twain1.dll, no such found.
======
Im not sure about this one..
Meridian a BHO ,, except we have no bad BHOs at present.
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\vbshell.tlb properties show nothing
modified date is 3-20-2000 and its 63kb in size
bho.dll,bho.inf,,myaccess.dll, these dont exist
msinet.ocx does and for good reason gee(Ithink)
properties report as
Microsoft Internet Transfer Control DLL
Copyright © 1987-2000 Microsoft Corp.
and it even has a digital signature. ie a certificate
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{fa79fa22-8db3-43d1-997b-6dbfd8845569}
the only place that csdl is, is.what dword 4 means disabled.right ?
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{FA79FA22-8DB3-43D1-997B-6DBFD8845569}]
"Compatibility Flags "=dword:00000400

Regards
Lonny