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Microsoft Releases AntiSpyware Program
Nathan Weinberg writes "Microsoft released this morning Microsoft AntiSpyware, the product of last month's acquisition of GIANT. As I write in my report on my site, the program is very powerful, and certainly measures up to and may even beat Spybot and Ad-Aware. However, it's also pretty buggy, and Microsoft might have already sneaked in a pay subscription service."
...how does it identify Windows Media Player?
The next version of Windows will have things that only their spyware removal program is able to remove, due to restrictions that the OS places on letting third party programs modify things..
Of course the spyware will be able to make it through backdoors in things like caluclator and notepad, because God knows they're wired to the central part of the Windows kernel!
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
Hmmm I ran this, but I still seem to have windows on my computer.
However, it's also pretty buggy, and Microsoft might have already sneaked in a pay subscription service
Bastards. How dare they! They're in the software business after all.
Amusingly it doesn't recognise it's Shell Hook:
"Microsoft.Antispyware.ShellExecuteHook.1 This is an unknown Excecute Hook.".
That's the original spelling too!
Otherwise the scan seemed to do a decent job, picked up a couple of things, but nothing serious because I'm mostly clean to start with.
Microsoft AntiSpyware... Isn't that somewhat like Military Intelligence?
the release is only a beta version, not a final release. That might explain the bugs.
It's called Microsoft AntiSpyware. The first half of the name explains the bugs pretty well for me.
Now, what I wanna know: Is clippy involved? "You are trying to clean your machine. Would you like to give us money?"
You can't take the sky from me...
Only 6 years after it became a huge problem, MS is doing something about the insecurity of their software: they are releasing a copy of other's company's software which cleans up attacks AFTER they happen.
I suspect this innovation will be so great it has to be bundled with the OS. Why actually write secure software when you can monopolize a market created around your own insecurity?
Look at that last name.... Wineberg? He's obviously an accountant.
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Thanks guys, I just found a spyware/keylogger/adware what ever you call it. And it is from this same Slashdot, and once again thank you guys, for providing me with these kind of crap.
And yeah thank you once again, for not allowing me to post this here. Long live "free" speach. Long live "free" OS. And yeah long live "free" bullshit, as long its not we who are getting this.
Dude, not even WinME supports WinME.
4. POTENTIALLY UNWANTED SOFTWARE.
Is Microsoft coining a new term - PUS? My machine is infected with PUS.
I can see it now...
The following has been identified as PUS. You may choose to keep it, however Microsoft cannot guarantee stability if you allow it to remain installed. Do you wish to disable the following PUS?:
Lilo - Identified as PUS
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
Spyware Identified:
C:\program files\mozilla
C:\program files\itunes
C:\program files\google
C:\program files\real playe...
C:\program files\America On...
C:\program files\Lotus
Click next to remove compeition.. oops.. uhh we mean infections!