Microsoft Denies Claria got Spyware Exception

daria42 writes "Microsoft has denied its AntiSpyware application has given adware-maker Claria special treatment. The denial has been issued amid reports MS is looking to buy Claria, and is in response to security researchers' reports stating AntiSpyware had downgraded the threat level posed by Claria's adware products. The downgrade in threat level merely represented an effort to be "fair and consistent with how Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) handles similar software from other vendors," according to a statement published by Microsoft." As reader jfengel writes, though, "they neglected to mention what software that might be, nor did they publish the analysis."

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Re:More info and analysis

[Master of Transhuman]

Hi. My sig is below. No "Anonymous Coward" here.

Scoble is a LIAR. He works for Microsoft, he talks for Microsoft on his blog. He's a LIAR.

He's NOT just a "brown-noser". He's a LIAR. Like everyone else who babbles about Microsoft and how good it is. Including the paid and unpaid MS shills on /.

Good enough for you? Something else you need to know about me? Like I think MS is CRAP. That I think Linux is CRAP. That I think Linux is however FREE crap.

Re:Anatomy of a Slashdot Post...

[Master of Transhuman]

"But I am so fatigued with the anti-MS bent here"

Well, go back to Microsoft's internal Web site where your fellow Microsoft employees can feed you an unending stream of happy-talk.

Fucking Microsoft astroturfer.