MS Anti Spyware

F@discussions.microsoft.com Rich F

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Jul 17, 2005, 8:16:03 AM7/17/05

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I am running MS Anti Spyware on 3 machines at home with no problems.
Just installed it on a 4th and it keeps hanging the PC as soon as it is
launched. The aapplication will not respond. I've uninstalled and
reinstalled. My PC is not infected with any virus and appears to be clean,
according to Spybot Search and Destroy v1.3. I cannot exit the application in
any way. It does not respond and will not close using the task manager. I
have to manually power down the PC to get out of this jam. This PC is running
WinXp home editiion, has 256 mb ram, is a Pentium 3 running at 800 MHz. Any
ideas what could be causing this and how I can remedy?
Thank you kindly.

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE

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Jul 17, 2005, 10:29:22 AM7/17/05

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"Rich F" <Rich F...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:15345198-054E-4ED9...@microsoft.com

At this time, support for the beta version of Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware
is being provided through the following Microsoft newsgroups:

- microsoft.private.security.spyware.announcements
- microsoft.private.security.spyware.appcompat
- microsoft.private.security.spyware.general
- microsoft.private.security.spyware.install
- microsoft.private.security.spyware.networking
- microsoft.private.security.spyware.signatures
- microsoft.private.security.spyware.onlinecommunity

These newsgroups can be accessed via NNTP or HTTP.

To access these newsgroups using HTTP, please go to the following location:

http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?ICP=spyware&sLCID=us

To access these newsgroups using NNTP, please use the following information
for your NNTP client (such as Microsoft Outlook Express):

- NNTP Server: privatenews.microsoft.com
- Account name: privatenews\spyware
- Password: spyware

NOTE: No password will be required via the HTTP link

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
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Jul 17, 2005, 10:33:12 AM7/17/05

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why not post it to the beta newsgroups?

While sipping a glass of wine, I read that Rich F wrote in
news:15345198-054E-4ED9...@microsoft.com

Panda_man

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Jul 17, 2005, 4:28:03 PM7/17/05

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As Frank said ,post to the MS Antispyware newsgroup.
But I think you can live without MS Antispyware installed on that PC.
You may have heard that it is still BETA,that means not completed and
unfortunately cannot remove all the junk.
I see you use SpyBot S&D,you can also use Ad aware and a good av software .
They will help you,be sure!

Rich F

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Jul 17, 2005, 11:18:01 PM7/17/05

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Thank you kindly for your reply.
I downloaded the Microsoft uninstaller utility and then reinstalled and it
is now working. I assume something must've gotten corrupted in the original
download so it would not run correctly and I could not uninstall it without
the help of the Windows installer (uninstaller) utility.
All is well now!!!

PA Bear

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Jul 18, 2005, 1:29:15 PM7/18/05

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Spybot v1.3 is an outdated older version. Upgrade to v1.4, seek & install
definitions, Immunize and scan again.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE) & Security