They don't do it in their anti-virus software because it makes them more money to release a seperate piece of software.
That being said, Norton and McAfee both do sucessfully detect some malware apps and promptly fail at doing anything useful with them.
Not saying much nowadays anyways, half the spyware I clean off computers at work doesn't show up on any scanners anyhow.
Microsoft's previous iteration, UltimateTV, was quite good. I would probably say it was better than the TiVos I've used since. The advance feature on it was fantastic and vastly superior to the one on the TiVo(via hacked firmware). It also categorized shows in a much easier to process manner. If they can pull this off again and this time actually market the damn thing, it could wind up doing quite well.
Restocking fees pretty much have absolutely nothing to do with rebates. You'll find after reading the policy that they're only assessed for camcorders and computers and are primarily targetted at "rental" customers; the kind of customer that would buy a camera for a wedding and then return it, or that would buy a laptop for a presentation and return it. Currently, there's not a restocking fee on anything that can have a rebate in the store. I'd also say our return policy is pretty lax as far as getting things in on time. As long as it isn't one of the aforementioned products and it is within return periods, at least at my store, I authorize the return (I work at the service/repair desk) pretty much no questions asked. Maybe this varies based on how well managed the store is, I have no idea.
Demonizing Best Buy is fine, but at least understand what all is going on before doing it.
Should be a 14 day return policy on pretty much just computers and camcorders and the like. At least at the store I work at, we take back DVD players and stereo stuff and it's ilk up to 30 days, and sometimes past that, depending on the situation. Hell, we've returned laptops past the 14 day policy before as well.
I asked someone at an AMC theatre why the cost of the tickets went up so much in the past few years. Their answer? "Because Regal's ticket prices went up."
Are ticket prices going up because of theatres or because of Hollywood? Doesn't Hollywood just rent/sell the tapes to theatres and they can charge as much or as little as they want, and any money they make over the cost of the reels is theirs? Rising ticket prices are probably why we see so many massive multiplexes coming up; the theatres are making an assload of money off it.
Granted this is all speculation, but hey.
I've seen a lot of people mention AdAware and Spybot, but I figured I'd throw a couple other recommendations in. For the computers we get in at work, we use a combination of
SpySweeper makes for some impressive numbers, but it's unclear to me why these numbers are any higher than what other software detects. Maybe it counts too many cookies.
Slashdot Mirror
Also, the attacker would have access to a lot of armadillo porn. :P
They don't do it in their anti-virus software because it makes them more money to release a seperate piece of software. That being said, Norton and McAfee both do sucessfully detect some malware apps and promptly fail at doing anything useful with them. Not saying much nowadays anyways, half the spyware I clean off computers at work doesn't show up on any scanners anyhow.
Microsoft's previous iteration, UltimateTV, was quite good. I would probably say it was better than the TiVos I've used since. The advance feature on it was fantastic and vastly superior to the one on the TiVo(via hacked firmware). It also categorized shows in a much easier to process manner. If they can pull this off again and this time actually market the damn thing, it could wind up doing quite well.
Restocking fees pretty much have absolutely nothing to do with rebates. You'll find after reading the policy that they're only assessed for camcorders and computers and are primarily targetted at "rental" customers; the kind of customer that would buy a camera for a wedding and then return it, or that would buy a laptop for a presentation and return it. Currently, there's not a restocking fee on anything that can have a rebate in the store. I'd also say our return policy is pretty lax as far as getting things in on time. As long as it isn't one of the aforementioned products and it is within return periods, at least at my store, I authorize the return (I work at the service/repair desk) pretty much no questions asked. Maybe this varies based on how well managed the store is, I have no idea. Demonizing Best Buy is fine, but at least understand what all is going on before doing it.
Should be a 14 day return policy on pretty much just computers and camcorders and the like. At least at the store I work at, we take back DVD players and stereo stuff and it's ilk up to 30 days, and sometimes past that, depending on the situation. Hell, we've returned laptops past the 14 day policy before as well.
I asked someone at an AMC theatre why the cost of the tickets went up so much in the past few years. Their answer? "Because Regal's ticket prices went up." Are ticket prices going up because of theatres or because of Hollywood? Doesn't Hollywood just rent/sell the tapes to theatres and they can charge as much or as little as they want, and any money they make over the cost of the reels is theirs? Rising ticket prices are probably why we see so many massive multiplexes coming up; the theatres are making an assload of money off it. Granted this is all speculation, but hey.
I've seen a lot of people mention AdAware and Spybot, but I figured I'd throw a couple other recommendations in. For the computers we get in at work, we use a combination of
Autoruns (Kind of like MSConfig on crack)
HiJack This
and some other scanner, usually Ad-Aware or SpySweeper.
SpySweeper makes for some impressive numbers, but it's unclear to me why these numbers are any higher than what other software detects. Maybe it counts too many cookies.