JWeaverJr 0 Report post Posted August 27, 2009 A-A AE (both Free and Plus, across six different machines) just started reporting AboutTime (a 10-year-old freeware time synchronizer program) as "Win32.Monitor.PowerSpy", and deleting it at every possible opportunity. I've added the process to the "Ignore List", but merely opening its window starts an A-A scan which kills the process immediately, and then ends claiming no problems were found. I've been forced to disable the Process portion of A-A Live! to keep this program running; when enabled, it also deletes the AboutTime process immediately. "General Support" requested that I post the details here. The AboutTime program (which has been running on all six systems here without problem since before A-A AE was installed) can be downloaded from "http://www.arachnoid.com/abouttime/", at "http://www.arachnoid.com/abouttime/abouttime_nomsie.exe". The program as installed on my machines (binary unchanged from that available for download) is also attached. Thanks for any assistance you may provide in solving this problem. -JW Scan_2009_08_26_13_00_16.log AboutTime.ZIP Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LS Anders 0 Report post Posted August 27, 2009 Hello Thank you for possting this issue. We will re-investigate the file in question and if it is found tp be a false positive it will be removed from detection. Regards LS Anders Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JWeaverJr 0 Report post Posted August 27, 2009 Hello Thank you for possting this issue. We will re-investigate the file in question and if it is found tp be a false positive it will be removed from detection. Regards LS Anders Thanks for the quick reply! -JW Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jjinatx 0 Report post Posted September 8, 2009 A-A AE (both Free and Plus, across six different machines) just started reporting AboutTime (a 10-year-old freeware time synchronizer program) as "Win32.Monitor.PowerSpy", and deleting it at every possible opportunity. I've added the process to the "Ignore List", but merely opening its window starts an A-A scan which kills the process immediately, and then ends claiming no problems were found. I've been forced to disable the Process portion of A-A Live! to keep this program running; when enabled, it also deletes the AboutTime process immediately. "General Support" requested that I post the details here. The AboutTime program (which has been running on all six systems here without problem since before A-A AE was installed) can be downloaded from "http://www.arachnoid.com/abouttime/", at "http://www.arachnoid.com/abouttime/abouttime_nomsie.exe". The program as installed on my machines (binary unchanged from that available for download) is also attached. Thanks for any assistance you may provide in solving this problem. -JW I just had the same thing happen today. Running XP SP3 + all updates. -jj Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Atribune 0 Report post Posted September 9, 2009 Hi jjinatx, Please attach the files like JWeaverJr did so we can investigate. Thanks Atri Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jjinatx 0 Report post Posted September 9, 2009 Atri, Sorry, but I don't have the zip file from AboutTime, but it is version 4.8. Here is the scan file. -jj Hi jjinatx, Please attach the files like JWeaverJr did so we can investigate. Thanks Atri AdAwareScanLog09092009.txt Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Atribune 0 Report post Posted September 10, 2009 Thanks, this should be fixed in the next definition release later today Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LS Albin 0 Report post Posted September 10, 2009 Hi! Our development department currently looking into this issue. Please put the object on ignore both in Ad-Watch and Ad-Aware until the issue has been resolved. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks Albin Lavasoft Malware Labs Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JWeaverJr 0 Report post Posted September 10, 2009 Hi! Our development department currently looking into this issue. Please put the object on ignore both in Ad-Watch and Ad-Aware until the issue has been resolved. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks Albin Lavasoft Malware Labs As noted in another topic (and reported), I already have this listed as "Do Nothing", and Smart Scan still zaps it every time. ...so, I just have a watchdog task scheduled for every ten minutes that restarts it when A-A kills it. I'm still rather annoyed by it, though, and would much rather that the Ignore List actually worked. -JW Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
meden 0 Report post Posted September 21, 2009 (edited) OPEN EMAIL Paul Lutus ... Still no change despite ... http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/index.php?s...rt=#entry110154 I re-downloaded 'abouttime_msie.exe' from http://www.arachnoid.com/abouttime/ and ran it, and almost instantly 'Ad-Aware' started a background scan and reported per Attachment 1. - whereupon I choose to add it to the ignore list rather than the recommended 'quarantine'! Moreover, again upon running 'About Time', now my 'Windows Firewall' immediately, even before 'Ad-Aware' gets a chance, throws up a dialogue box recommending the blocking of some aspects of the program (i.e. 'About Time') for security reasons [see Attachment 2.] - whereupon I chose to add it to allowed exceptions. Now my adding 'About Time' to the respective 'ignore list' and 'allowed exceptions' resulted in 'About Time' NOT being ignored (i.e. the 'Ad-Aware' auto-scan continues immediately upon opening/starting 'About Time', and finds nothing!) in the former yet successfully allowed in the latter. I feel 'About Time' is becoming more of a problem than it is worth, and it is for that reason I have decided to uninstall the program till these issues are fully resolved. Martin Eden Attachments: 1. 2. Edited September 21, 2009 by meden Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
meden 0 Report post Posted September 22, 2009 (edited) PAUL LUTUS' RESPONSE ... On 09/20/2009 08:03 PM, Martin Eden wrote: / ... > I feel 'About Time' is becoming more of a problem than it is worth, and > it is for that reason I have decided to uninstall the program till these > issues are fully resolved. Given the circumstances, your reaction is perfectly understandable. I wonder how many other clean, harmless programs will be exterminated by the LavaSoft dragnet? They could have solved this problem in 24 hours if they were properly motivated. AboutTime has been available in the same version for almost ten years, and the installation package produces the same checksum that it did when I first offered it. It is not any kind of threat to anyone's system. Over the years I have heard from many police, fire and public safety departments that use AboutTime to synchronize their municipal networks. LavaSoft needs to understand their responsibilities and the legal risk they are taking in not correcting their defective software in a timely manner. [ ME: can you post this on the LavaSoft Discussion board? I can't. ] -- Paul Lutus http://www.arachnoid.com Edited September 22, 2009 by meden Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LS Anders 0 Report post Posted September 22, 2009 Hello meden Try downloading the latest software updates and definitions. There was an update that should solve this bug. If you are still having problems after that please post those here. Regards LS Anders Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JWeaverJr 0 Report post Posted September 22, 2009 As of today's update (to 149.0055), "abouttime.exe" is no longer deleted by Ad-Aware. To "meden": the Windows Firewall dialog appears because About Time needs to access the Internet (to find/read a time server), and needs your permission for that access. There is nothing to worry about in that regard. -JW Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
