Outlook/E-mail intergration and installer intergration

HI, I am not a technical I.T person but i know a bit or two

Alot of spyware comes when you download a free software, is
it possible to check for spyware as it downloads and installs?

Also can it intergrate with outlook express as I find a lot
of spyware comes through this way, along with viruses.

I have not seen any signs of realtime protection, as i go
on a site which i know may contain spyware and i run the
scan afterwards and it finds it spyware.

Otherwise i am very pleased with it, the spynet is a good
idea, does it go to a microsoft server and alert of a new
one so all other computers can be alerted and updated.

I have found that it finds more spyware than adware, but
adware finds different ones. Does MS antispyware scan
memory and files? i have spybot which scans memory only,
so a combination of the three keeps well covered. Plus
spyware blaster which is realtime internet blocker.

Anyway fix the problems and get it launched!

Peter

<quip5y-junk@yahoo.co.uk>

Hi Peter,

> Alot of spyware comes when you download a free software, is
> it possible to check for spyware as it downloads and installs?
I would suggest being poractive. Read the EULA before you do it. There's a
fine line between spyware and malware etc in that a lot of it is installed
with the permission of the user. The fine print at about page 50 of some of
these EULA's is the hook.

> I have found that it finds more spyware than adware, but
> adware finds different ones.>
This version of the Beta doesn't look at cookies.

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP

Peter--there is considerable active monitoring in the product--not the same
kind of bit by bit examination of filestreams that you see with an antivirus
application, but a large number of "integration points" with the OS and some
applications are monitored.

See: Tools, real-time protection (pick one of the three types of agents,
and look at the descriptions of the checkpoints monitored.)


--
FAQ for MS AntiSpy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.txt

"Peter" <quip5y-junk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1b4a01c50176$707e47e0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> HI, I am not a technical I.T person but i know a bit or two
>
> Alot of spyware comes when you download a free software, is
> it possible to check for spyware as it downloads and installs?
>
> Also can it intergrate with outlook express as I find a lot
> of spyware comes through this way, along with viruses.
>
> I have not seen any signs of realtime protection, as i go
> on a site which i know may contain spyware and i run the
> scan afterwards and it finds it spyware.
>
> Otherwise i am very pleased with it, the spynet is a good
> idea, does it go to a microsoft server and alert of a new
> one so all other computers can be alerted and updated.
>
> I have found that it finds more spyware than adware, but
> adware finds different ones. Does MS antispyware scan
> memory and files? i have spybot which scans memory only,
> so a combination of the three keeps well covered. Plus
> spyware blaster which is realtime internet blocker.
>
> Anyway fix the problems and get it launched!
>
> Peter
>
> <quip5y-junk@yahoo.co.uk>