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Peter
My thoughts on MS AntiSpyware:
Updater:
The update utility should be accessible without having to
open the whole program, or the update function should check
whenever you go online, not just at one specific time.
Menus:
The top-level menu bar should be a standard menu bar like
every other Windows program. Check for Updates should be
under something other than File. Maybe there shouldn't be
a File menu.
SpyNet:
I hope the checkbox stays there - I don't always want to
send data to SpyNet, if it's just because of me fiddling
around. It's nice that it's checked by default, though.
Clicking bug:
Clicking on "Spyware Scan" (the title) when a scan is
running aborts the scan. Why, I don't know. There is no
indication that it should or that it will.
Summary screen:
The colour of the stars indicating something good should be
changed. A yellow star means, to me, that something needs
attention at a convenient time. Maybe something like a
green checkmark would work better.
Bonus feature:
It would be REALLY, REALLY nice if MSAS could run a scan as
a background low-cpu-usage process that could be paused and
resumed manually and at system startup/shutdown quietly.
It could also alert the user if it needed some dedicated
time to meet the "one scan every 5 days" ideal MS has given us.
Updater:
The update utility should be accessible without having to
open the whole program, or the update function should check
whenever you go online, not just at one specific time.
Menus:
The top-level menu bar should be a standard menu bar like
every other Windows program. Check for Updates should be
under something other than File. Maybe there shouldn't be
a File menu.
SpyNet:
I hope the checkbox stays there - I don't always want to
send data to SpyNet, if it's just because of me fiddling
around. It's nice that it's checked by default, though.
Clicking bug:
Clicking on "Spyware Scan" (the title) when a scan is
running aborts the scan. Why, I don't know. There is no
indication that it should or that it will.
Summary screen:
The colour of the stars indicating something good should be
changed. A yellow star means, to me, that something needs
attention at a convenient time. Maybe something like a
green checkmark would work better.
Bonus feature:
It would be REALLY, REALLY nice if MSAS could run a scan as
a background low-cpu-usage process that could be paused and
resumed manually and at system startup/shutdown quietly.
It could also alert the user if it needed some dedicated
time to meet the "one scan every 5 days" ideal MS has given us.