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Review of Microsoft's Anti-Spyware Tools

Posted by michael on from the better-than-nothing dept.

happyslayer writes "Matthew Fordahl has written a review of Microsoft's anti-spyware tool and has declared it, in a word, 'ineffective.' Though the methodology isn't carried out completely (he uses another anti-virus program after trying MS's tool, but doesn't do the same with the anti-spyware tool), it's a fairly good anecdote on the MS product's usefulness."

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  1. Ineffective? Are you so sure? by Kozz · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think it's great. Nooo, definitely no sarcasm here. uh-uh.

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  2. Hurrah for Microsoft bashing on slashdot! by bildungsroman_yorick · · Score: 3, Funny

    Whenever a Microsoft bashing article comes up on slashdot we need a little video song clip to come on with pasty aggressive nerds emerging from their basements in homemade rockets with the lyrics blaring: SLASHDOT! FUCK YEAH! Coming again, to save the mother fucking day yeah, SLASHDOT, FUCK YEAH! Linux is the only way yeah, Microsoft your game is through cause now you have to answer too, SLASHDOT, FUCK YEAH! So lick my slanted posting, and suck on my trolls, SLASHDOT, FUCK YEAH! What you going to do when we come for you now, it's the open-source dream that we all share; it's the hope for tomorrow. FUCK YEAH! OpenBSD, FUCK YEAH! Spybot S&D, FUCK YEAH! Beowulf CLusters, FUCK YEAH! Neil Stephenson, FUCK YEAH! MMORPG, FUCK, YEAH!

  3. No, they will make REAL improvements ... by Snork+Asaurus · · Score: 3, Funny
    they'll probably stop calling it beta when they figure out how to bloat it into total uselessness (so far they've made it auto start without option to turn off, and have a long and annoying splash screen)

    After burning tens of thousands of R&D hours, the brains at MS labs will be adding add a dancing, blinking magnifying glass that will pop up with the caption "I see you're trying to get rid of spyware!"

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