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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. The site might be experiencing tech. difficulties by digitaldc · · Score: 5, Funny

    or the shootout ended up killing everyone, including the article.

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    He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
  2. Re:Enough power by c0l0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, I guess we now know why Intel is heading for _FOUR_ cores on one DIE in 2007. One for your personal tasks, and the other 3 cores each for one anti-spyware-thingie exclusively ;)

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    YTARY!
  3. Re:Enough power by plover · · Score: 5, Funny
    Three cores for the Aussie geeks, on their big island.
    Seven cores for the anti-spy programs, in their halls of ivory.
    Nine cores for trojans, doomed to spam.
    One core for the user, all alone.

    One chip to run them all
    One northbridge to bind them
    One RAM to feed them all
    And in the SMP array bind them.

    In the land of Mobos where the shadows lie.

    --
    John
  4. typo by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny
    Windows is a better operating system with more software than Mac OS X.

    You misspelled "spyware."