Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft...how we love to poke at you with
sharp sticks. This one takes the cake though as both the funniest and
dumbest thing I have seen on a computer in quite some time.
I use Microsoft SourceSafe for some of my development at work (which
really, really sucks). I went to use it the other day and it was
uninstalled from my PC. That seemed unusual since I didn't remember
purposefully doing it. Yesterday I ended up needing it, so I
reinstalled.
I also happen to have the Microsoft AntiSpyware beta running on my PC.
So far it has been fantastic, working much better than other
anti-spyware programs. Overnight, it detected that I had 1 instance
of spyware. This seemed unusual to me, since I only use Firefox now,
and I hadn't gone anywhere unusual. The program was SystemSpy or
something similar, and was supposedly a keylogger. AntiSpyware said
that I should immediately remove it, so I let it go ahead.
I then watched as it proceeded to blow away my SourceSafe
installation. Now, I knew how it had been uninstalled originally.
I had been installing from an ISO of version 6.0d downloaded straight
from MSDN, but I borrowed someone else's copy just to make sure mine
didn't have a trojan or something. It didn't, the other version
showed up as Spyware as well.
Okay, let's recap. Microsoft's AntiSpyware program removed
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe. As best I can tell, this is
because source safe has executables and folders named SS which is
similar to how SystemSpy may appear.
I can't help wonder if some user didn't come up with this either
maliciously or through unknown stupdity, and then Microsoft just
rolled it into a definition update.
6 years ago
2 comments:
Interesting... I've not yet had the AntiSpyware come up w/ SourceSafe in it's spyware list. I'm running a full scan now to see if I get the same thing...
--Josh
Remember kids, if you really hate Internet Explorer, just rename it ss.exe and Microsoft's Spyware Killer will whisk it away in a jiffy.
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