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Antispyware Shootout

Posted by Hemos on from the battle-royale dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet has published a review of 8 antispyware products from Computer Associates, Lavasoft, McAfee, Microsoft, PC Tools, Symantec, Trend Micro and Webroot. Check out the Editor's Choice. Interesting winner ...." I've used quite a number of these scanners on and on & off basis, and I think the reality is that you if you are truly to clean a machine out, you're going to need to use like three - five of these. Each of them captures a certain area, but none are the One Ring or anything.

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  1. Wake up call for Microsoft by bogaboga · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    > the reality is that you if you are truly to clean a machine out, you're going to need to use like three - five of these. Each of them captures a certain area, but none are the One Ring or anything.

    To me, this suggests that Microsoft does not really know thier product though they would like us to believe otherwise. Remember the phrase " ...Microsoft products work best with Microsoft products..." , which was coined [by M$] in the early nineties during the word processor battles?

    Just last week M$ representatives were at my place of work trying to sell some stuff to our IT department. The buzz I heard was "it's only M$ that understands M$ products...".

    I guess it all about the money, sadly.