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Antispyware Shootout
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.
Why weren't spyware scanners for Mac OS X tested? Oh wait, that's a stupid question. Windows is a better operating system with more software than Mac OS X.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
And the wider body of MSFT users find this situation normal and acceptable? Just amazes me. Don't surf the internet with Windows! Keep a Linux machine with firefox around for browsing, email and chat. Don't leave the windows box connected to the internet for anything but updates and that behind a firewall.
MSFT should offer a web safe version called Windows Unplugged.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
Apple looks like a real bargain when you think of what this guy's time is worth. Or even what yours is.
I know someone, a small-time user who's scared of computers, who has given up computing entirely because he can never keep his Windows box clean.
So I borrowed it (as a hardcore Mac user, I needed one to see how my web sites look on it), and Internet Explorer is just about hopeless to run, even after repeatedly running anti-virus and anti-spyware software. I don't know where he went on the net, but whenever I run the anti-spyware program it comes up with the same old names over and over again.
Still, his brand new entry-level Thinkpad limps along just barely well enough to serve as a software test PC. I don't know what mainstream people who have to use PCs do.
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