http://www.majorgeeks.com/story.php?id=34895

Kaspersky calls home to prevent false positives

Eugene Kaspersky, co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, wrote on his blog that the company's anti-virus software will now call home to try to prevent false positives, before it notifies the user that it has detected malicious software. The software will now send information on the suspect file and the signature responsible for detecting it to a special database that is part of the Kaspersky Security Network ( KSN ) before it displays a warning to the user of what it found.

The cloud-based KSN service will check whether the file is on a whitelist and whether the signature is known to result in a false positive. In the past, this information would have been disseminated to clients via signature updates, resulting in delays of up to several hours or even days.

Why double check on false alarms? The potential problems caused by false alarms was recently illustrated by Avira's anti-virus software, which made a mistake of blocking several harmless windows system processes. The result was that computers were almost completely disabled as they would no longer boot properly.

At the end of the post, Kaspersky notes that his company has applied for patents for its cloud-based anti-false-positive system, saying that "Unfortunately, for now we're in silent mode on this issue to avoid letting the cat out of the bag before all the patent applications have been filed. But I’ll keep you posted!".

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Many spyware programs and "home page hijackers" alter the default home page and other key user settings in Internet Explorer. These malicious programs often set certain Registry keys/values in order to lock users out from those Internet Explorer settings, preventing them from reclaiming control of their browsers.

Also, some users of SpyBot Search & Destroy have checked the following boxes on the "Immunize" page within SpyBot Search & Destroy, not realizing that they are effectively locking themselves out of those Internet Explorer:

* "Lock IE start page setting against user changes (current user)"
* "Lock IE control panel against opening from within IE (current user)"

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