Microsoft AntiSpyware thinks Firefox is Spyware

brightertimes writes "It seems that microsoft's new AntiSpyware (beta) is now advising users to remove Firefox on their computers.. A Zeropaid.com thread shows the offending screenshot in action. Once your scanning has been done, if Firefox is found on your computer it provides the user with a "high" threat level and advising removal due to of lack of security updates." CT Several users have noted that the screenshot is likely fake.

Comments

Not true....

[scifience]

I just ran a "Deep Scan" with MS Anti-Spyware on a machine with Firefox 1.0 installed. I got 0 results for spyware.

Re:Not true....

[epedersen]

I have ran the scan on my computers with both Firefox 1.0 and Firefox 1.0.1 and the only Spyware that the MS Anti-Spyware finds is RealVNC.

Re:Not true....

[Martin Taylor]

Jesus H, It's obviously a photoshop, the thread that they link to is clearly a joke. It took about 10 seconds to tell that this is a hoax. How in the hell can this make the front page? It's just insane. People subscribe to /.? People are paid to run this site? For this and same-day dupes?

Re:Predicted on Slashdot

[d3ac0n]

The most important part of any scam:

No matter how outrageous your claim, if you make it believeable, people will fall for it.

Nicely done gentlemen, nicely done indeed.

Taco

[Anonymous Coward]

"CT Several users have noted that the screenshot is likely fake."

should read

"CT The article notes that the screenshot is fake."

Re:Taco

[Amtiskaw]

I love how they weren't skeptical enough about this picture to even consider the possibility it was faked, but they're skeptical enough about the actual author saying it's "obviously faked" to conclude that it's just "likely".

O rly?

[Vicsun]

"CT: Several users have noted that the screenshot is likely fake." Likely? I'd love to see what evidence is needed before it's conclusively determined it's fake.

Comedy for nerds, stuff that doesn't matter

[The_Incubator]

Last week I told myself I was quitting slashdot cold-Turky after the late Febuary posting of a "news" story about Dell entering the HDTV market with a plasma panel that was reviewed by CNET in November. I thought that story making the front page pretty much embodied everything that has come to suck about Slashdot.

I lasted about a day, and then I thought "oh hell, I've been reading Slashdot for years, I can't stop so I'll just read it once a day or something."

Now this story makes me realize that Slashdot has simply evolved and I've taken too long to catch up. This isn't a new site anymore, it's a comedy site. It's pure comedy to watch the bumbling idiots who run this site post same-day dupes, fake stories, last year's news today, etc. etc.

So while I used to read slashdot as a news site and get exasperated at it's terrible execution as such, now I read it as a comedy show and laugh my ass off. It's like reading the class clown's blog.

Nick

Re:TACO IS AN IDIOT

[rebeka thomas]

Before blasting slashdot, I think slashdot has handled this better simply by nature than most other news sites.

I've seen links to this image at least half a dozen times already. Only on slashdot have I seen the uproar in comments that it's a fake. Only on slashdot have people bothered researching the info behind the photograph to see what happened. Hell, only on slashdot was a link given to the original thread so we could find this out for ourselves. Everywhere else just had a bunch of drooling fools looking over the image and laughing at how desperate MS looks, while here we find the true story because of the strength of comments and the comment moderation system.

Slashdot is doing better than regular news sources that regularly print misinformation, one sided stories and complete fabrications with no recourse for comments by readers who do know better.