Lavasoft Ad-Aware is better!

R

Richard

I have run Microsift spyware for a week now and each time
it has not detected any spyware; however, when I run
Lavasoft Ad-Aware, it finds 15 to 20 files to delete each
day. Why can Microsoft's Spyware find anything?
 
A

Andre Da Costa

Microsoft AntiSpyware beta 1 does not detect data miners and cookies, maybe
thats what Ad-aware is detecting. This should be supported in beta 2. I
would not prefer to compare a product such as MSAS which is still in
development. Wait until the final version is released to make an impartial
comparison to other third party utilities on the market.
 
T

TBob

Because MSAS, in its current incarnation, doesn't scan for
cookies and Ad-Aware does. This isn't an issue of "better"
or "worse" -- they represent different "takes" on the
definition of spyware.
 

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