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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. Re:But why won't MS help linux? by Homology · · Score: 0, Troll
    Now they have this brand new antispyware program. How nice it would be for them to port it over to linux?

    With the number of recent Linux local root exploit, perhaps such a tool is needed ;-)

  2. Re:Single Data Point... by Bios_Hakr · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes it does pad itself. I ran it. It detected eMule and Kazaa Lite as spyware. It also missed an Alexia tracking cookie that AdAware picked up.

    Also, I have an icon in my taskbar. I've tried to close this program for about 4 days. It won't close. Every time I close it, it launches itself back up a few minutes later.

    --
    I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.