>If you place your taskbar to the righthand side of the screen (I'm
>assuming it'll do this for all positions other than the default
>bottomhugging one):
>
>- Popup messages about hosts file changes and other such notifications
>float up and up and up and are damned hard to read or click. I'm
>assuming this is a bug in their window docking code.
>
>How is this a security issue? A user cannot confirm or deny the action
>taken by the software and has to hope the default action doesn't
>interfere with system operations.
>
>Another bug, not specifically security related, but which I found in
>Antispyware nonetheless is that it has a habit of doing scheduled
>scans twice. By this I mean that if I cancel the scheduled scan
>(because I know the system to be clean and can use the resources
>better at the moment), the software will happily popup again 10
>seconds later, and start scanning again.
>
>If anyone knows of an official Microsoft channel where these bugs can
>be reported... I'm yet to find one in the software itself.
>
>- Jeroen.
>
>
>
--
Chapter 4 of The Complete Patch Management Book:
https://www.ecora.com/ecora/jump/pm149.asp
So why is it the only book on NT Event Logging is out of print?
http://tinyurl.com/3kwc2
And if you don't know about www.eventid.net You should!
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?ICP=spyware&sLCI
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Jeroen van Rijn wrote:
>If you place your taskbar to the righthand side of the screen (I'm
>assuming it'll do this for all positions other than the default
>bottomhugging one):
>
>- Popup messages about hosts file changes and other such notifications
>float up and up and up and are damned hard to read or click. I'm
>assuming this is a bug in their window docking code.
>
>How is this a security issue? A user cannot confirm or deny the action
>taken by the software and has to hope the default action doesn't
>interfere with system operations.
>
>Another bug, not specifically security related, but which I found in
>Antispyware nonetheless is that it has a habit of doing scheduled
>scans twice. By this I mean that if I cancel the scheduled scan
>(because I know the system to be clean and can use the resources
>better at the moment), the software will happily popup again 10
>seconds later, and start scanning again.
>
>If anyone knows of an official Microsoft channel where these bugs can
>be reported... I'm yet to find one in the software itself.
>
>- Jeroen.
>
>
>
--
Chapter 4 of The Complete Patch Management Book:
https://www.ecora.com/ecora/jump/pm149.asp
So why is it the only book on NT Event Logging is out of print?
http://tinyurl.com/3kwc2
And if you don't know about www.eventid.net You should!
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