MS "anti-spyware" program ran for ? minutes (I forgot to time it)...but less than 5
minutes, and reports the following: BTW, it only checked 20,000 files.

Spyware Scan Details
Start Date: 1/10/2005 6:29:46 PM
End Date: 1/10/2005 6:32:29 PM
Total Time: 2 mins 43 secs

Detected Threats
No spyware threats were found during this scan.

Spy-bot S&D ran for 2 minutes (setting is to check ALL) and reports:
"Congratulations!" "No spyware found on this computer."

Ad-Adware runs for nearly thirty minutes, checked 145,228 files and
reports "No spyware!"

Sooo...... Ad-Aware is the most thorough? That's how it appears to me.
BTW, I put that "squire... thingy" MS called 'spyware' in the BLOCK sites!

Hummmm..... what's going on? Slickwillie's program looks VERY much
like Ad-Aware. Maybe it's collecting info from our computers and intends
to make us pay BIG BUCKS in July? I dunno. But I'll keep it on here for
a while and see what gives.

"Helen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1mFEd.11866$(E-Mail Removed)...
> MS "anti-spyware" program ran for ? minutes (I forgot to time it)...but
> less than 5
> minutes, and reports the following: BTW, it only checked 20,000 files.
>
> Spyware Scan Details
> Start Date: 1/10/2005 6:29:46 PM
> End Date: 1/10/2005 6:32:29 PM
> Total Time: 2 mins 43 secs
>
> Detected Threats
> No spyware threats were found during this scan.
>
> Spy-bot S&D ran for 2 minutes (setting is to check ALL) and reports:
> "Congratulations!" "No spyware found on this computer."
>
> Ad-Adware runs for nearly thirty minutes, checked 145,228 files and
> reports "No spyware!"
>
> Sooo...... Ad-Aware is the most thorough? That's how it appears to me.
> BTW, I put that "squire... thingy" MS called 'spyware' in the BLOCK sites!
>
> Hummmm..... what's going on? Slickwillie's program looks VERY much
> like Ad-Aware. Maybe it's collecting info from our computers and intends
> to make us pay BIG BUCKS in July? I dunno. But I'll keep it on here for
> a while and see what gives.

Let me get this straight. You ran three scanning programs, and none of them
found anything on your computer, but by your estimation the one that is the
slowest is the most thorough? Whatever.

"Remove Underscores" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2LLEd.15268$lG.14323@trnddc03...
> "Helen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:1mFEd.11866$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> MS "anti-spyware" program ran for ? minutes (I forgot to time it)...but
>> less than 5
>> minutes, and reports the following: BTW, it only checked 20,000 files.
>>
>> Spyware Scan Details
>> Start Date: 1/10/2005 6:29:46 PM
>> End Date: 1/10/2005 6:32:29 PM
>> Total Time: 2 mins 43 secs
>>
>> Detected Threats
>> No spyware threats were found during this scan.
>>
>> Spy-bot S&D ran for 2 minutes (setting is to check ALL) and reports:
>> "Congratulations!" "No spyware found on this computer."
>>
>> Ad-Adware runs for nearly thirty minutes, checked 145,228 files and
>> reports "No spyware!"
>>
>> Sooo...... Ad-Aware is the most thorough? That's how it appears to me.
>> BTW, I put that "squire... thingy" MS called 'spyware' in the BLOCK
>> sites!
>>
>> Hummmm..... what's going on? Slickwillie's program looks VERY much
>> like Ad-Aware. Maybe it's collecting info from our computers and
>> intends
>> to make us pay BIG BUCKS in July? I dunno. But I'll keep it on here
>> for
>> a while and see what gives.
>
> Let me get this straight. You ran three scanning programs, and none of
> them found anything on your computer, but by your estimation the one that
> is the slowest is the most thorough? Whatever.
>

Could I add Bazooka to the OPs three. It takes less than two seconds to scan
28GB on my computer, and has never found anything. The OP thinks that the
slowest is the most thorough -- Bazooka must claim some sort of record for
speed! The online encyclopedia is worth bookmarking.

http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner...ource=appvisit
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner...ource=appvisit

===

Frank Bohan
¶ Willpower is the ability to eat one salted peanut.

"Remove Underscores" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2LLEd.15268$lG.14323@trnddc03...
> "Helen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:1mFEd.11866$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> MS "anti-spyware" program ran for ? minutes (I forgot to time it)...but less than 5
>> minutes, and reports the following: BTW, it only checked 20,000 files.
>>
>> Spyware Scan Details
>> Start Date: 1/10/2005 6:29:46 PM
>> End Date: 1/10/2005 6:32:29 PM
>> Total Time: 2 mins 43 secs
>>
>> Detected Threats
>> No spyware threats were found during this scan.
>>
>> Spy-bot S&D ran for 2 minutes (setting is to check ALL) and reports:
>> "Congratulations!" "No spyware found on this computer."
>>
>> Ad-Adware runs for nearly thirty minutes, checked 145,228 files and
>> reports "No spyware!"
>>
>> Sooo...... Ad-Aware is the most thorough? That's how it appears to me.
>> BTW, I put that "squire... thingy" MS called 'spyware' in the BLOCK sites!
>>
>> Hummmm..... what's going on? Slickwillie's program looks VERY much
>> like Ad-Aware. Maybe it's collecting info from our computers and intends
>> to make us pay BIG BUCKS in July? I dunno. But I'll keep it on here for
>> a while and see what gives.
>
> Let me get this straight. You ran three scanning programs, and none of them found
> anything on your computer, but by your estimation the one that is the slowest is the
> most thorough? Whatever.
>
>
Ad-Aware checked ALL files in every folder. The others did NOT!
Of course Ad-Aware can be set to eliminate checking certain folders.
It seems to me that if one is checking for sypware, it would behoove one
to check ALL folders. These days it's not impossible that those tracking
cookies could be squirreled away in who knows where locales.

"Helen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:LpZEd.13144$zy6.5296
@bignews5.bellsouth.net:

> Ad-Aware checked ALL files in every folder. The others did NOT!

They work in different ways. Spybot checks if the files on the list are on
the harddisk, while Adaware checks if the files on the harddisk are on
their list.

--
Rod

>>SNIP<<
>
> Sooo...... Ad-Aware is the most thorough? That's how it appears to me.
> BTW, I put that "squire... thingy" MS called 'spyware' in the BLOCK sites!
>
>>SNIP<<


Okay, I just can't let this one go.
Did you actually think before you posted? These programs (AD-Aware and
Spybot S&D) work differently from one another. They compliment each other,
and should both be installed on your system. The first releases of Ad-Aware
6.0 were much slower than the later releases, did this make them more
thorough? As they are checking for different things, it seems rather
foolish to try to compare them on the basis of scan times and files
scanned.

--
HK

"H-Man" <I-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>>SNIP<<
>>
>> Sooo...... Ad-Aware is the most thorough? That's how it appears to me.
>> BTW, I put that "squire... thingy" MS called 'spyware' in the BLOCK sites!
>>
>>>SNIP<<
>
>
> Okay, I just can't let this one go.

> thorough? As they are checking for different things, it seems rather
> foolish to try to compare them on the basis of scan times and files
> scanned.
>
> --
> HK

You MISSED the point! Bottom line: MS's 'anti-spyware' program
does NOT check ALL files! End of point! All your verbosity about
being foolish for comparing programs re scan times (due to the number of
files they check ---- THAT and ONLY that is relevant!). I posted my
experience with the MS program! That's ALL! FYI I've used Ad-Aware
and SpyBot since they first came out! MS's venture into the area changed
nothing with regard to my continuing to use the two former programs.

"Helen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
newshkFd.20181$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> "H-Man" <I-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:2kcyp5w1dc3i$.t3fipdvsbuka$.(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>>SNIP<<
>>>
>>> Sooo...... Ad-Aware is the most thorough? That's how it appears to me.
>>> BTW, I put that "squire... thingy" MS called 'spyware' in the BLOCK
>>> sites!
>>>
>>>>SNIP<<
>>
>>
>> Okay, I just can't let this one go.
>
>> thorough? As they are checking for different things, it seems rather
>> foolish to try to compare them on the basis of scan times and files
>> scanned.
>>
>> --
>> HK
>
> You MISSED the point! Bottom line: MS's 'anti-spyware' program
> does NOT check ALL files! End of point! All your verbosity about
> being foolish for comparing programs re scan times (due to the number of
> files they check ---- THAT and ONLY that is relevant!). I posted my
> experience with the MS program! That's ALL! FYI I've used Ad-Aware
> and SpyBot since they first came out! MS's venture into the area changed
> nothing with regard to my continuing to use the two former programs.

Find us a spyware that MS antispyware doesn't detect and your point might be
valid. Right now you have absolutely nothing to go on other than your
statement that it "does NOT check ALL files!"

"Remove Underscores" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:qhKFd.17124$F97.13780@trnddc06...
>
>
> Find us a spyware that MS antispyware doesn't detect and your point might be valid.
> Right now you have absolutely nothing to go on other than your statement that it
> "does NOT check ALL files!"
>
>
It's a fact! If you want to agrue, go elsewhere. Life is too precious and fleeting!
As far as what I have to go on, YOU HAVE NO IDEA, just your opinion...
which is like a specific part of the anatonomy, everyone has one.

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:39:05 -0500, Helen wrote:

> "H-Man" <I-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:2kcyp5w1dc3i$.t3fipdvsbuka$.(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>>SNIP<<
>>>
>>> Sooo...... Ad-Aware is the most thorough? That's how it appears to me.
>>> BTW, I put that "squire... thingy" MS called 'spyware' in the BLOCK sites!
>>>
>>>>SNIP<<
>>
>>
>> Okay, I just can't let this one go.
>
>> thorough? As they are checking for different things, it seems rather
>> foolish to try to compare them on the basis of scan times and files
>> scanned.
>>
>> --
>> HK
>
> You MISSED the point! Bottom line: MS's 'anti-spyware' program
> does NOT check ALL files! End of point! All your verbosity about
> being foolish for comparing programs re scan times (due to the number of
> files they check ---- THAT and ONLY that is relevant!). I posted my
> experience with the MS program! That's ALL! FYI I've used Ad-Aware
> and SpyBot since they first came out! MS's venture into the area changed
> nothing with regard to my continuing to use the two former programs.

Okay whatever.
You posted that MS's anti-spyware program does not check all files. FYI,
neither does Spybot S&D. Seems to me that you kinda painted them with the
same brush, even though you say you had no intention of this. My
"verbosity" was intended to inform those that might not know that your
conclusion was based on assumptions only. Of course you did say that "it
appears that way to me". So I should appologise, you did, afterall, tell
the good people that you were only stating opinion, not fact.

--
HK