RE: MS Antispyware missed a few spyware programs

Many posters are complaining that MS Antispyware missed
sypware that competing programs caught. I took the
opposite tactic--I ran other spyware cleaners then MS
Antispyware to see what it would catch. MS antispyware
caught one program on each of two machines:

1. On machine 1 I run pestpatrol (the paid version),
Addaware SE and Spybot search and destroy. Antispyware
caught one program. However, I intentionally have
Activeports, modemspy, Sam Spade and packetyzer (A
Windows port of etherreal). other antispyware programs
complain about some or all of these programs.

2. On machine 2 I run Addaware SE and Spybot search and
destroy. MS Antispyware found one program (different
than the one on machine 1.)

No one program will do it all. You have to use several,
and even then, you can't be sure that all the junk is
cleaned off.

I also did what you did and found that neither
Adaware nor Norton's 2005 anti-virus nor NS Antispyware
could remove 9 "critical" spyware programs located
within "program files" as "wintools", they all identified
the files but were "unable to remove".
>-----Original Message-----
>Many posters are complaining that MS Antispyware missed
>sypware that competing programs caught. I took the
>opposite tactic--I ran other spyware cleaners then MS
>Antispyware to see what it would catch. MS antispyware
>caught one program on each of two machines:
>
>1. On machine 1 I run pestpatrol (the paid version),
>Addaware SE and Spybot search and destroy. Antispyware
>caught one program. However, I intentionally have
>Activeports, modemspy, Sam Spade and packetyzer (A
>Windows port of etherreal). other antispyware programs
>complain about some or all of these programs.
>
>2. On machine 2 I run Addaware SE and Spybot search and
>destroy. MS Antispyware found one program (different
>than the one on machine 1.)
>
>No one program will do it all. You have to use several,
>and even then, you can't be sure that all the junk is
>cleaned off.
>.
>