Is Spydoctor legit????

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October 25th, 2004, 12:03 AM
riddellcomp

Is Spydoctor legit????

A friend of mine phoned to say that their computer has a program on it called SPydoctor which has found 99 infections.
They thought that I had put spydoctor on their pc but I had only put on Spyblaster, which was set to stop spyware.

This has got me wondering if this spydoctor is one of those fake spyware programs that asks you to purchase it so it will remove the fake spyware it finds.
I installed it on my own system which is very heavily guarded with all the latest anti scum progs around. It found 67 infections. Some were kazaa related which I dont even have on my pc but some were like this.

Zango Search Assistant
Tool name: Registry Scanner
Infection location: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Int ernet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\xxxtoolbar.com
Infection type: Registry
Infection risk level: Dangerous

I did find many folders under the reg key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains folder, such as
30search.com
4pokertips.com
99livecam.com
69teenage.com
1sexparty.com
coolwebsearch
gator.com

In fact there were thousands of entrys listed under this domains folder.

However when you open these they only have a single key with an asterix next to the small icon with the blue binary numbers on it.

I am not sure how they got there and am also not sure why spybot doesn't pick them up after doing a full scan either. Are they fake and perhaps put there by Spydoctor itself???

If so can I remove all these entrys in this domains folder??
October 25th, 2004, 12:12 AM
geeksRus

this from Spyware Warrior:

false positives work as goad to purchase (1); poor scan reporting (1); same app as #1 Spyware Killer, Spyblocs/eBlocs, Spyinator, SpyKiller 2005, SpySpotter, & SpywareThis; Ad-aware knockoff; Note: not to be confused w/ Spyware Doctor, a completely different app by another company.
October 25th, 2004, 03:29 AM
riddellcomp

Okay so it appears that Spyware doctor is a legit program. But how come Spybot and adaware cannot pick up infections that Spyware doctor can?

And where did they came from in the first place??
October 25th, 2004, 04:06 AM
NooNoo

Quote:

Originally Posted by riddellcomp

Okay so it appears that Spyware doctor is a legit program. But how come Spybot and adaware cannot pick up infections that Spyware doctor can?

And where did they came from in the first place??

Riddel, read the warrior quote again carefully - Spyware Doctor is not what you installed.
October 25th, 2004, 07:30 AM
riddellcomp

Quote:

Originally Posted by NooNoo

Riddel, read the warrior quote again carefully - Spyware Doctor is not what you installed.

Um actually Noo spyware doctor is what I installed.https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif Im just an idiot who only now realised that I was calling it spydoctor.https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif So now I have to check with my friend to see if she was talking about spydoctor or spyware doctor.

Interesting to note was that I obtained a registered version for the purposes of evaluation and testing onlyhttps://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2007/09/1.gif, and it failed to pick up the 67 supposed infections that the unregistered version did. It only found one entry which wasn't even mentioned in the unregistered version.

And I still dont know where all those reg entrys came from in the first place.
October 25th, 2004, 07:41 AM
freddy

Quote:

Originally Posted by riddellcomp

Um actually Noo spyware doctor is what I installed.https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif Im just an idiot who only now realised that I was calling it spydoctor.https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif So now I have to check with my friend to see if she was talking about spydoctor or spyware doctor.

Interesting to note was that I obtained a registered version for the purposes of evaluation and testing onlyhttps://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2007/09/1.gif, and it failed to pick up the 67 supposed infections that the unregistered version did. It only found one entry which wasn't even mentioned in the unregistered version.

And I still dont know where all those reg entrys came from in the first place.

tis a load of bollocks ,,,unreg version "supposedy" finding all those bits ,,,you pays yer money ,,,,,,and now they don,t exist.

kidology rule!!!!!!

freddy
October 25th, 2004, 10:27 AM
jitBob

Quote:

Originally Posted by freddy

tis a load of bollocks ,,,unreg version "supposedy" finding all those bits ,,,you pays yer money ,,,,,,and now they don,t exist.

kidology rule!!!!!!

freddy

What happened to your icon Freddy?
October 25th, 2004, 10:31 AM
freddy

Quote:

Originally Posted by jitBob

What happened to your icon Freddy?

don,t know , i went to change it ,,and there was no option to use ppersonal avatars ,,,could,nt be bothered complaining ,,,might have looked political (?) ,,

sod it , i,m not bothered anyway
October 27th, 2004, 05:24 AM
NooNoo

Quote:

Originally Posted by freddy

don,t know , i went to change it ,,and there was no option to use ppersonal avatars ,,,could,nt be bothered complaining ,,,might have looked political (?) ,,

sod it , i,m not bothered anyway

Just pm scott with the image and ask him to put it up for you...no biggie.
October 27th, 2004, 03:44 PM
jaeger

Use Firefox, no spyware.
October 27th, 2004, 04:34 PM
techs

Coincidence. I just had this woman who wanted me to get Zango out of her computer because Spyware Doctor kept finding it. Spybot and Adaware didn't find anything. I couldn't find any Zango anywhere in puter.
She left in a huff.
I guess Spyware Doctor goes on the list of bogus programs.