Microsoft AntiSpyware not that good at detecting spyware

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Guest

As anyone else noticed that MAS is not very good at detecting spyware,
tracking cookies or trojans.

MAS always reports clean, yet when then run SS&D, or any other anti-spyware
program or trojan finder, it's gauranteed that something will pick something
up, but not MAS.

I think there is a fatal flaw in the software, if it can't even pick up some
of the basic stuff out there.

If you think your machine is clean then try running another anti-spyware
program and see your results.
 
A

Andre Da Costa

I

Ira

Stollen123 doesn,t read the long stream of posts that explain that MSAS
doesn;t do anything about cookies as they contain NO EXECUTABLE CODE. This
is not a flaw. MSAS does and exelcent job of online protection.
What other AS programs are reporting is cookies and false positives.
Ira
: mine is not detecting too..always clean..somethin wrong with the program
:
: "mirdragon" wrote:
:
: > As anyone else noticed that MAS is not very good at detecting spyware,
: > tracking cookies or trojans.
: >
: > MAS always reports clean, yet when then run SS&D, or any other
anti-spyware
: > program or trojan finder, it's gauranteed that something will pick
something
: > up, but not MAS.
: >
: > I think there is a fatal flaw in the software, if it can't even pick up
some
: > of the basic stuff out there.
: >
: > If you think your machine is clean then try running another anti-spyware
: > program and see your results.
: >
 

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