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MS AntiSpyware vs Ad-Aware vs. SpyBot

Posted by timothy on from the more-amazing-is-what-people-tolerate dept.

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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  1. Wow, is this for real by Cracell · · Score: 5, Funny

    So wait a sec Microsoft's product is actual good?

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    1. Re:Wow, is this for real by harrkev · · Score: 3, Funny

      They have only owned it for a few weeks. Even Microsoft has limits on how fast they can screw stuff up.

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    2. Re:Wow, is this for real by wankledot · · Score: 5, Funny

      Of course it's good, they know where to find spyware and viruses because they're the ones that created them!!@# [/tinfoilhat]

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  2. Wait a minute... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait.. aren't we supposed to hate Microsoft? I'm confused.

  3. Funny... by lga · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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  4. Re:and Linsux is really Unix, so? by l3v1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    step MS has taken in order to help the common user avert infection by malicious developers
    conspiracy to degrade MS software

    Good heavens :) Medicine has evolved pretty much in the last couple of hundred years you know, so you can easily get pills for your delusions :)

    Well, the ignorance part is harder to cure, 'cause it's more up to you then doctors.

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  5. It caught itself trying to make changes by srNeu · · Score: 3, Funny
    I just ran it and got a message:

    The Internet Explorer URL for your Search Assistant is attempting to be changed from http://www.google.com/ie to http://ie.search.msn.com/{SUB_RFC1766}/srchasst/sr chcust.htm.


    So this is how they are going to promote their new search engine.
  6. Re:Not a Microsoft Designed Product by Jesus+2.0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  7. arghhh by TCP+Pimp · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah works great, I ran it on a client's PC and it uninstalled Windows. :)