MRU List

Lawrence Lupkin · Post by **Lawrence Lupkin** » 23 Jun 2005 6:22 am

What is that?

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 23 Jun 2005 6:38 am

"Most Recently Used" list. Can be used by and part of the registry, but it's what provides the information for the little list that appears under "FILE" (for example) that shows the last Excel or Word files you opened or worked on.<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Ray Minich on 23 June 2005 at 07:39 AM.]</p></FONT>

Lawrence Lupkin · Post by **Lawrence Lupkin** » 23 Jun 2005 6:41 am

Thanks Ray. Why would an Ad-Aware scan want to remove it?

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 23 Jun 2005 8:03 am

For one thing It's a good place for the bad guys to park something bad for later.
Secondly, if the bad guys already had your PC running something nefarious (i.e. bad, ugly, sneaky, etc.) it would/could show up in the MRU list for that program.

Lawrence Lupkin · Post by **Lawrence Lupkin** » 23 Jun 2005 8:07 am

I am duly edified. Thanks Ray.

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 23 Jun 2005 8:22 am

Lawrence, Please go to the Microsoft website (www.microsoft.com) and download and install the Windows Antispyware Beta download that appears under the "Popular Downloads" heading. It just found and erased 36 threats from my company networked PC. I use it ahead of everything else and so far have cleaned up a lot of PC's with it. Run the update selection so that you'll have the latest threat definition file installed too.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 23 Jun 2005 9:07 am

All of the spyware programs are good and they will each find things the other one misses.

The only caution is with SpyBot. This program has been known to target legitimate files as spyware. I've fixed a couple of PC's (restored files) that SpyBot tagged and deleted. SpyBot is one of the popular free spyware programs, along with AdAware.