needs work

[Guest]

this removal tool needs some major work before microsoft
makes it a marketable product (i'm guessing they
certainly plan to do this). for one, you cant have an
antispyware tool that doesn't scan cookies. a lot of
spyware infects through cookies, so its necessary to have
a software that scans them. for people who think this
software is great, i suggest trying a trial version of
Webroot Spysweeper from www.webroot.com or go to
www.majorgeeks.com and search Ad-Aware SE Personal (its
free) and see the many softwares microsoft left on your
computer. I'm sure microsoft will be quick to fix this
stuff, and even the tools i mentioned aren't the best,
but they hack it a lot better then the Beta.

My examples: Ad-Aware SE detected 15 spyware cookies and
4 spywares after a Beta scan detected nothing.

 

[John]

Cookies are text files - how do they infect anything?

 

[Guest]

a lot of things infect through cookies, especially
tracking cookies that are used to track your websites so
that adware/spyware can track what websites you visit by
infecting your cookies with tracking cookies. this is
why most spyware removal tools scan cookies, and a lot of
infectious/at risk files are cookies in the temporary
files.