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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."
When Microsoft finally motivates itself to attack a problem head on, it does a stellar job of crushing any and all opposition. Just think about what it will do when it finally decided to attack the shit scourge that is your shitty software called LinSux
..did MS perhaps create some of these spywares themselves?
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.
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 :
I'm sure you, as a fine Slashdotter, are able to configure a free and legal copy of an OS.
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.
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Any time Microsoft is shown in a good light on Slashdot, it's a conspiracy of astroturfing?
Christ, the userbase here has gone to crap.
Linux will succeed becuase you have many groups contributing to computing some free some not so free but it creates a economy around it of sorts.
Wow, haven't we been hearing how Linux "will succeed" since 1998!
You have totally bought into the OSS groupthink. Yes, it has its merits. Microsoft has its merits too. The majority of people choose Microsoft. People here just need to deal with that.