Spyhunter by Enigma Software - crapware?

I'm posting here because I'm not sure where else to post - I'm
wondering about this Spyhunter program.

I came across it while I was looking for a quick cheap malware
scanner. It told me I have "seek seek", a homepage hijacker. I then
found out that the downloaded program's a crippleware version, it
scans but doesn't fix anything without boocoo bucks. The "bad"
registry entry was at:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\interface\{57A0E747-3863-4D20-A811-950C84F1DB9B}

regedit tells me that this key contains the data
"IFlashAccessability".

So, I continued my search, going on to the trusty old AdAware and
SpyBot packages. I scanned with the latest versions - they found a
bunch of bad cookies, but no "seek seek" or any other hijacker
problem; no malware was found. I did a little research, and found
cwshredder, recommended for removing CoolWebSearch, a nasty hijacker
that possibly may be the parent of seek seek. It found nothing at all.
I even tried the latest version of Hijack This; it didn't pick out the
registry key that Spyhunter was worried about, although it doesn't
like Microsoft Money or ATI's drivers at all.....

After all this, I re-ran Spyhunter - and "seek seek" is still there.
What's the deal? I can't find "seek seek" on any of the malware lists;
none of the other packages have found anything remotely like it in my
registry. I'm not normally a suspicious person, but.... is "seek
seek" just a ploy to get me to buy Spyhunter? Or do I have a homepage
hijacker?

Any info would be appreciated!
Thanks, ECM
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Lanwench
Sat Feb 28 23:14:12 CST 2004

I googled "seek seek spyhunter" and found lots of hits, but this one looked
relevant -

http://www.spywareeliminator.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=379&st=0

ECM wrote:
> I'm posting here because I'm not sure where else to post - I'm
> wondering about this Spyhunter program.
>
> I came across it while I was looking for a quick cheap malware
> scanner. It told me I have "seek seek", a homepage hijacker. I then
> found out that the downloaded program's a crippleware version, it
> scans but doesn't fix anything without boocoo bucks. The "bad"
> registry entry was at:
>
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\interface\{57A0E747-3863-4D20-A811-950C84F1DB9B}
>
> regedit tells me that this key contains the data
> "IFlashAccessability".
>
> So, I continued my search, going on to the trusty old AdAware and
> SpyBot packages. I scanned with the latest versions - they found a
> bunch of bad cookies, but no "seek seek" or any other hijacker
> problem; no malware was found. I did a little research, and found
> cwshredder, recommended for removing CoolWebSearch, a nasty hijacker
> that possibly may be the parent of seek seek. It found nothing at all.
> I even tried the latest version of Hijack This; it didn't pick out the
> registry key that Spyhunter was worried about, although it doesn't
> like Microsoft Money or ATI's drivers at all.....
>
> After all this, I re-ran Spyhunter - and "seek seek" is still there.
> What's the deal? I can't find "seek seek" on any of the malware lists;
> none of the other packages have found anything remotely like it in my
> registry. I'm not normally a suspicious person, but.... is "seek
> seek" just a ploy to get me to buy Spyhunter? Or do I have a homepage
> hijacker?
>
> Any info would be appreciated!
> Thanks, ECM
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> Please reply to the newsgroup, the email's a spam trap. Thanks!

thedeepabyss
Mon Mar 01 10:13:08 CST 2004

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> wrote in message news:<ugGBzOo$DHA.2520@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>...
> I googled "seek seek spyhunter" and found lots of hits, but this one looked
> relevant -
>
> http://www.spywareeliminator.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=379&st=0
>
> ECM wrote: blah blah blah

So do you think it's just an innocent false positive? Really, I'm
unsure - I can't find out anything about "IFlashAccessabilty" when I
google it. CoolWebSearh has so many variants now that most of the web
sites I visited to find out more don't even bother to list them all. I
think I'll leave it alone, and hope that, if it is hijackware, it'll
declare itself eventually.

BTW, I checked my google toolbar - I actually searched for "spyhunter
seek seek" and got entirely different results than "seek seek
spyhunter"..... I guess I know now, try it both ways.....

Thanks for your help!
ECM
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