MS AntiSpyware vs Ad-Aware vs. SpyBot

An anonymous reader writes "Flexbeta.net compares Microsoft's new spyware fighting tool, Windows AntiSpyware, to Ad-Aware and SpyBot S&D; the two leading spyware tools on the market today. The review sets up an infected PC using VMWare Workstation and scans the machine using all three tools to see which tool detects the most spyware. Though still in beta, Microsoft AntiSpyware does an amazing job at detecting spyware by finding twice as many infected files as Ad-Aware and nearly three times as SpyBot."

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This begs the question...

[Zestius]

..did MS perhaps create some of these spywares themselves?

The whore on the corner is selling condoms

[HiyaPower]

Personally, I find it offensive that this company has designed software that is so poor that it may be exploited in this manner. I have just had a multi-hour session prying out some of the junk that my daughter naively stuck on her machine. And now the same company is offering me another closed system to fix their earlier closed system? No thanks. I think I will stick with OSX and SUSE where ever I can.

Re:Just tried to install this MS AntiSpyware

[Homology]

and apparently their detection of license keys has greatly improved... my key is invalid.
Anyone else have this problem using their obscure key of choice? SP2 installed fine a few months ago.

Hmh, I neither have a license nor the need for such programs :

tanstaafel $ dmesg
OpenBSD 3.6-current (GENERIC) #258: Thu Jan 6 23:38:30 MST 2005
deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/co mpile/GENERIC
cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class) 2.09 GHz
cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,P GE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE
[snip]

tans taafel$

I'm sure you, as a fine Slashdotter, are able to configure a free and legal copy of an OS.

Re:Wow, is this for real

[Zalgon 26 McGee]

No, it's not good. Default behaviour it exhibits:

* Resets IE homepage to msn.com without consulting the user

* Reviews your HOSTS file and comments out any lines referring Microsoft properties. Thus, the line:

127.0.0.1 ads.msn.com becomes
#27.0.0.1 ads.msn.com

This is underhanded at best, as the EULA and Help make no mention of this behaviour.