New Beta release of Microsoft AntiSpyware

For anybody who is finicky, remember: THIS IS A BETA PRODUCT.
Uninstall old version before installing new.

Build version: 1.0.613
Published: 2005-23-6

"In this second beta refresh (Build 1.0.613), we’ve made other enhancements
to the detection and removal capabilities, including improved Winsock LSP
removal capabilities and support for long descriptions of categorized software.
In addition, we have also extended the Windows AntiSpyware beta expiration
date to December 31, 2005."

Microsoft® Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...A2-6A57-4C57-A8BD-DBF62EDA9671&displaylang=en

Shorter link:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q14552F2A


Direct download:
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...-fca2f2c6f0cc/MicrosoftAntiSpywareInstall.exe

Shorter link:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I5C731C2A

 

Thanks for the heads up Mike
-max

 

You're welcome.

 

Done the Download..
Uninstalled Microsoft AntiSpyware Version: 1.0.509
Restarted my computer..
Installed the NEW Intall file in my download directory
Started up Microsoft AntiSpyware

Checked version to find : Microsoft AntiSpyware Version: 1.0.509
This version expires on: 31/07/2005
Spyware Definition Version: 5687 (18/06/2005 05:32:24)

For some reason it has hot updated did I do somthing wrong?

 

Did you use this link?
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...-fca2f2c6f0cc/MicrosoftAntiSpywareInstall.exe
-max

 

You installed the wrong file.

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Yes I used the link from the first post. ( Yours is the same )

I deleted the file, and downloaded it again.
I followed the instructions as before it has just done the same.
The file version number is 9.0.333.0 If thats of any help to you?

-MYK-

 

Find the file 'GIANTAntiSpywareMain.exe' in your install
directory and right click on it. Choose 'Properties' and look
at the 'Version' tab. What does it tell you?

 

It tells me : 1.0.0.509

the server is giving me the wrong setup file for some reason??

-MYK-

 

Actually you might be doing everything correct but actually getting the
old beta version. I visited the http://www.microsoft.com/security site
and followed the link to download the supposedly newer "refresh" beta
version that is supposed to expire on December 31, 2005. However, while
running the MicrosoftAntispywareInstall.exe program, the license
agreement (you know, that part of an install that rare few users every
bother to read) says:

"TIME-SENSITIVE SOFTWARE. The software will stop running on July 31,
2005. ..."

Well, looks like Microsoft has screwed up their download link so it
points back at the prior version, or they actually have not slid in the
new installer program (i.e., their web page describing the product got
updated before the new version of the program was made available). I
aborted the installation since there was no point in installing the same
version that was already installed. Perhaps Microsoft might learn to
put the version number in the filename to ensure that they point the
link to the correct file rather than using the same filename for every
version of the program.

If the above is not what occurs when you download the "new" version from
the link they currently provide then maybe the fault lies in a dirty
uninstall by Giant's uninstaller. After uninstalling MSAS beta 1, the
following remnants were found in the
registry:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{03819E35-56B6-42BB-9CAD-5A8768D7556B}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{03F3EB8F-BF06-488F-A808-B3A3EAD5C968}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0661FFC2-46C1-45C8-A78D-B85144D83B47}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0DE200BA-4B11-49C4-83F9-9E1F749E5700}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{13973210-8B95-4B00-B4A0-87C7E6854CCE}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{398BD73C-76C2-4376-B595-5B35E4FA5F1D}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{456E55C3-6DC8-4B6A-8E72-D096E7812545}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{46A5C24D-6EE6-438D-B389-3C48C29C2CD0}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{4B718E68-C132-4319-8D3B-750FC01E7C43}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{4C7AAF4A-9414-455F-9D6D-54B3A7069DCF}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{50553481-A590-49D4-98A8-0136244F7F36}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{6A18FCA0-C53C-4AA1-9285-7FD98EE6AEF5}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{83417D49-C236-4946-91A3-67E24F8ABBBE}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{982A83F3-9B4D-4535-9EF6-1B45202390BC}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B130644A-D587-4862-841D-500464FB7DB0}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B26FB0EE-B290-4D33-B44C-3B4A8B2FB29D}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{BAA5FBCF-478D-4A57-AE8C-E94C6640CCAC}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{C0655A9E-42C5-45B8-AB83-16C8E4990213}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D83A9597-7433-4283-AAAF-378CA2031666}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E0FE17FC-4A33-4F65-88BA-130DF8F1661F}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E74E4448-8D0A-4EF5-A432-19B0C03D0364}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{F555C8FD-FA97-46DF-9D83-3575CE6280B4}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{0E9FFA9E-B267-44DF-BC81-2B08E3977ED5}
Have a pointer to a non-existent server program - because you
uninstalled it!

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{350FAA62-1388-4BC6-A20C-31AF59D7526E}
A class ID for a typelib used by MSAS WinTrust Verifier Class.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Microsoft.AntiSpyware.Trust
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Microsoft.AntiSpyware.Trust.1
Refer back to the above class ID entry.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GIANTCompany
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GIANTCompany
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start
Menu\Programs\Microsoft AntiSpyware
Uninstalls often neglect to remove this entry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Folders
Data item: C:\Program Files\Microsoft AntiSpyware\

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start
Menu\Programs\Utilities\Security Tools\Microsoft Antispyware
If you have move the group somewhere else in the Start menu.
This shows that I moved the MSAS group (originally created under the
Start -> Programs folder) to under the Start -> Programs -> Utilities ->
Security Tools folder. Don't expect uninstalls to know what happens
after you install a product.

The uninstall is "dirty"; i.e., is doesn't clean out everything that was
installed or generated by the program in the registry. So maybe some
cleanup of the remnants left behind by the uninstall would get the new
install to work correctly. Before editing the registry, back it up and
manually create a System Restore point for recovery. It is likely that
the new install will step on these registry entries (i.e., reuse them)
but perhaps not overwrite them. Some items the uninstaller won't know
about because they were not recorded in logfile created during the
install and then used during the uninstall. Some items may have been
generated by using the program so they only existed after the install
(and won't be in the logfile for the uninstaller to know about) but that
doesn't mean the developer responsible for the uninstall program cannot
add them to the uninstall routine. I would tend to attribute this
dirtiness to Giant when they produced the product which then Microsoft
acquired.

 

Aha! I might've discovered how to get the new "refresh" version of MSAS:
do NOT validate when going through the download process on their web
site. When I validated (to show Microsoft that I have a legit copy of
Windows), the download link points to their old version of MSAS. That
is, when I validate, I get the old version that I already had. However,
when I chose not to validate (you click Continue but then choose to not
validate on the next screen), then the license agreement shows a
December 31, 2005 expiration. So their web site is screwed up. The
validated download still points to the old beta version while the
non-validated download points to their new "refresh" beta version.

 

So you're the one who's been validating their install. I wondered about
that.

 

I validated and got the new version.

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When did you perform your validated download? This morning I did a
validated and non-validated download and the same file got retrieved
(same number of bytes and a binary file compare showed they were equal
files). So Microsoft fixed their web site since my test. You can only
download what Microsoft pointed to for the file, and I confirmed at that
time that Microsoft was pointing to their old beta version file with
their link since I got different files showing different expiration
dates in their license agreement depending on a validated or
non-validated download (and perhaps even the validated download link was
screwed up, too, for a time). It was possible to get the old beta
version although their web page said it was the "refresh" beta version.
So now MYK should be able to either download and get the correct file.

 

I did it yesterday right after Mike posted the info.

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Did you get the new version from Microsoft web site & did you un-install you
old 1.0.509 version first.

 

I got the new version. It upgraded the old during install.

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In <>,
Vanguard took 44 lines to utter:

The Microsoft website was not broken. I downloaded and installed
the new version BEFORE I posted the heads up, AND I used the MS
validation.

Which was the new one.

<snip>

 

You posted at 4:10PM. You downloaded before that time to get the
installer. MYK posted at 7:06PM (3 hours later) but didn't mention when
he/she did the download. I posted at 11:13PM (7 hours later than you)
right after doing the download and also got the old version downloaded
from Microsoft that MYK got stuck with. The license agreement with the
July 31 expiration proved that Microsoft proffered the old beta for what
got downloaded using their link. Then today at 9:25AM, I did another
download (using the same link) and the new version showed up. So there
was a slot of time when the file downloaded could be the old version
instead of the new one. It is also possible, even at the same time,
where one user gets the new version while another user gets the old
version simply because of the load-balancing across many worldwide
servers where one or some of those servers were still proffering the old
version, especially when the filename doesn't change (to reflect the
version).

Some users were getting the old version from the download links provided
by Microsoft. Maybe that's been fixed by now by getting all their
servers updated with the new version of the file but which unfortunately
has the same filename as before. It's good that you got the new version
and which also appears to be the prevalent result for most users. After
some time passed, others could get it, too, that were before getting
stuck with a download of the old version. It sometimes happens that the
files are out of sync with the web pages. It was the first day of
releasing their "refresh" version and it looks like it took awhile to
propagate the file across all their servers although all of us were
using the same link.

 

They have quietly released a newer version.

Current downloads will get build version 1.0.614

Some repeat some users are getting the new version via the automatic
update function but others (including myself) are having to uninstall
the old version and then install the one.

Spyware definitions should now be #5729 (released today).


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
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http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm