MBAM & MSE observation

[Kernel Krumpet]

Interesting... just an observation here...

Had a computer today with MSE installed and up-to-date and all the usual "free" expired garbage security software.

Uninstalled spybot 'n nod and rebooted.

Updated and scanned - again - w/ MSE - nothing found.

Still suspicious, I dnlded and installed MBAM from cnet (Geeks make it almost impossible - you shouldn't let them have it - imho) (and I don't like that cnet can sell it for less) - updated and ran a full scan.

Lo and behold, no surprise that MBAM found net.net but at the precise moment that MBAM found the nasty then MSE (real-time) found it too... and offered to remove it before MBAM had finished the rest of the full scan. I gave MBAM the pleasure!!

Odd indeed - to me. They're not hooking into your API are they !!

[Kernel Krumpet]

Odd indeed - to me. They're not hooking into your API are they !!

and again, just now, another 'puter, same symptoms as above, altho' not as much bogus/dishonest av software.

As soon as MBAM downloaded (from cnet) and installed and updated and scanned it finds Java/ByteVerify, Java/Shinwow, HTML/framereg and whatever else...

Then, again as above, MSE is hot on MBAM's tail and trying to take Kudos away by "discovering and offering to remove" the same found malware.

No such luck - again. I'm going to let MBAM delete 'em...

Weird. Is this new behavior on the part of MSE or, a new strain of malware or, just old hat to all of you and I'm seeing it for the first time?

Rock on MBAM!

Postscript

a chuckle for all those with a sense of humor - I love Stephen Hawkins too!! Always did..

The following is the 2010 winning entry from an annual contest at Cambridge University calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term.

This year required a definition for the contemporary term: 'Political Correctness'.

The winner wrote: 'Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

and that is precisely why I am just not a nice guy. I'm just tired ....

[GT500]

Could be a rootkit hiding the files from MSE's normal scan, but the real-time protection saw it when MBAM hit it. Can't say that I'm right about that though, since I don't really know how the technology works in MSE. I have noticed that their real-time protection almost always detects things that I downloads that I know are malicious.

[Kernel Krumpet]

Could be a rootkit hiding the files from MSE's normal scan, but the real-time protection saw it when MBAM hit it. Can't say that I'm right about that though, since I don't really know how the technology works in MSE.

Could be that you're right about that tho'.

I failed to mention that on a rootkit scan, (not MBAM), nasties were found. Found as in after the MBAM full scan, after the MSE declarations and then, after the reboot...

thanks for the ponderer..