"If it ain't broke don't fix it"

[Guest]

Beta 1 version 1.0.701 (with the December update) works until July 31 2006.

I would suggest keeping it.

My system experianced a significant slow down after installing Windows
Defender and I found the previous interface contained many useful features
(including control of updates) that are now missing.

I revereted back to Microsoft AntiSpyware Version: 1.0.701 and will wait
until the bugs and omissions are taken care of with Windows Defender. Version
1.0.701 worked well and I feel "If it ain't broke don't fix it".

Note: If you are having trouble reverting back to Version 1.0.701 because it
says that it expired in December 2005, there is an update in the C:\Program
Files\Microsoft AntiSpyware\TempUpdates (or whereever you installed it) dated
in December 2005 that you can install again and you will have Beta 1 until
July 31 2006.

 

[Fuzzy John]

On the other hand my system boots up a little faster (about 4 scrolls of the
blue bar on the Win XP Splash screen) and seems a little faster in operation
as well.

I installed Windows Defender on a machine where I restored a hard disk image
from before installing Microsoft AntiSpyware so it was a clean installation.
So far I have not experienced any of the errors and other issues I came
across systems on which I had Microsoft AntiSpyware.

Computer: Gateway M275 TabletPC
OS: Windows XP TabletPC Edition 2005.

 

[History Fan]

My system experianced a significant slow down after installing Windows

Defender and I found the previous interface contained many useful features
(including control of updates) that are now missing.

I revereted back to Microsoft AntiSpyware Version: 1.0.701 and will wait
until the bugs and omissions are taken care of with Windows Defender.
Version
1.0.701 worked well and I feel "If it ain't broke don't fix it".

To each his own. I had problems with the auto-update feature of
MSAS, and I believe it was responsible for error messages I encountered with
Outlook Express. Since installing Windows Defender, those problems are
gone. At least, so far.

 

[Richard Hay]

I am also of the group that the install went well and it does not cause me
any issues to this point. I uninstalled the Beta 1 to install this one (no
upgrade over top for me.

 

[Guest]

I have to agree with the subject of this post, while I have no specific speed
issues with the new 'defender' code, I prefer the functionality of the
original 'antispyware' code, many great features have been removed. Yes, I
know how to access that data by fighting with the OS to get it, but it's so
much nicer to open one program and have it all there. IMHO, a bad move,
please give us the original functionality back MS !

 

[Guest]

I agree. There were a lot of usefull features in the previous version which
I'm going to miss. I want them back. I want them back so much Defender is
history first thing in the morning. I'm rolling back to AntiSpyware - what
does Defender mean anyway? I'd thought that for once the marketing nerds had
let the programming nerds call a product by a name that described what it
does - it's why I downloaded it in the first place.

 

[Guest]

i'm another user who went back to "antispyware". Beta 1 seems to me to be
better than Beta 2. go figure.

btw, this website does not like firefox too much.

 

[Guest]

I'm another user who went back to "antispyware". Beta 1 seems to me to be
better than beta 2. go figure.

 

[Guest]

i'm another user who went back to "antispyware". Beta 1 seems to me to be
better than Beta 2. go figure.

 

[Guest]

Hmm... A MS website that doesn't like Firefox...

 

[Antoninus Pius]

That should have been posted in alt.conspiracy!

Hmm... A MS website that doesn't like Firefox...

 

[Tom Emmelot]

Hello Barbos,

first, the defender is better, without the things that already are done
better with other programs from other resellers!
Then use Mozilla Thunderbird for newsgroup reading!

Regards >*< TOM >*<

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