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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."
So wait a sec Microsoft's product is actual good?
Signatures are so 90s
The new spynet feature is pretty blatantly spyware itself.
Wait.. aren't we supposed to hate Microsoft? I'm confused.
Does anyone else think it funny that the advert at the bottom of this review is for Smiley Central, a well known piece of computer-invading crap?
A latent existence
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They're letting us slashdot their mail server too?
Guy asked me for a quarter for a cup of coffee. So I bit him.
It even detected and removed Firefox and my Linux partition. Ad-aware missed those.
step MS has taken in order to help the common user avert infection by malicious developers
:) Medicine has evolved pretty much in the last couple of hundred years you know, so you can easily get pills for your delusions :)
conspiracy to degrade MS software
Good heavens
Well, the ignorance part is harder to cure, 'cause it's more up to you then doctors.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
So this is how they are going to promote their new search engine.
They even detect their own crap!
With that much crap cloggin up your resources, spyware doesn't have a chance! It'll never find processor time! Clever ruse.
REM Old programmers don't die. They just GOSUB without RETURN.
good point. I ran the MS beta on my desktop. It detected a win32 port of gnu cat (cat.exe) as "Norwegian Porn Dialer". Don't recall seeing that option added...
I rennamed a textfile something like claria.exe and that thing started screaming immediately that bad people were trying to take over my life.
Wow, how horrible. I can't imagine how annoying and dangerous that would be for me, given how often I rename text files to claria.exe.
Except Lindsay Lohan.
Where those 4000+ files in the spybot/adaware quarantine directories?
Morphing Software
I got an ad saying my computer may be infected with spyware...but then it switched to some girl in panties so all was okay.
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christ on a crutch
Funny, I always thought Christ was a crutch.
Yeah works great, I ran it on a client's PC and it uninstalled Windows. :)
OTOH, I learned the hard way not to trust file names. A routing cleaning of core dumps on our fileserver at school managed to destroy the work of half of the VLSI class. Who would've thought that students would be designing CPU cores and just call the output file "core"...
my sig's at the bottom of the page.
"Ad-Aware and SpyBot offer great performance for free, yet when Microsoft debuts its AntiSpyware application, it will require a subscription fee."
A subscription fee?! First, they produce an OS that's just open to all manner of spyware one can imagine, then they actually charge to have it removed?!
Wow! I need to get into this business!
Beetle B.