Stop complaining!!!!

[Advisor]

In general you guys who are constantly complaining about
spyware on your PCs have been browsing sites and loading
poor software that you should know contains spyware. Stop
blaming Microsoft and the other Spyware removal companies
for problems that YOU created and need to accept
responsibility for. Change your surfing habits and stop
installing every little program you find on the web and
then you will have a PC that works.

Microsoft Antispyware is currently a BETA product (read
the download page and understand what BETA software is -
stop expecting perfection!!!!!

 

[Michael Jennings]

The squeaking bearing gets the grease. The softies have
seen the merit in providing armor plate for browsing.
If one keeps one's combat vehicle out of bad
neighborhoods one is unlikely to experience attacks.

 

[Guest]

Buddy,
Spyware is a plague on the Internet. Every site you go to
will install some sort of 'spyware'. Be that a cookie, or
some actual software. It's no longer a case of 'loading
poor software that you should know contains spyware'. The
internet has been come the means of reasearch and
communication, even some cookies are not considered
spyware. Many people are ignorant about the Internet. You
cannot blame them because other people attemp to take
advantage of them on every site they goto, including
Microsoft who tries and track everything you do.

Just accept that spyware is now a common-place problem.
'Stop complaining' about ignorant users.

 

[Guest]

i think it does run perfect. maybe thats cause i know how
to maintain my computer. ;-)

 

[stmpy]

yeah stop complaining if we didnt open so much
rubbish on the internet to allow the spyware and adaware
onto our PCs where the anti spyware and adaware
comanys be

 

[stmpy]

oooppss sorry about the spelling ment to say Companies

 

[Melker63]

I Agree with Advisor.

Its a very good initiative that Microsoft launches this
app anyway, because theres just a very short list (only 3-
4 actually) of 100% trustworthy 3:rd party anti-spyware
alternatives out there - mingled up with literally
100:eds of more dubious so-called anti-spyware apps. Many
are OK of course, but the thing is; you dont know for
sure. Anti-spyware with built-in spyware, fake online-
scan testresults and fake 'objective' anti-spyware test-
comparisons is unfortunately the norm. All in order to
endorse these dubious, sometimes porn-financed products.

 

[Mark Randall]

A cookie is hardly majorly offensive - most cookies are session ID's and
won't hurt you in the slighest (type "javascript:alert(document.cookie)" in
the address bar while on any website to see what they are storing cookie
wise) but eally as they could (with a a bit more processing power) query by
such things as IP etc anyway - The best defence is to redirect all known
adware / spyware traffic to some completly bogus IP address (note: bombaring
your 2K or XP Pro IIS system with hundreds of extra requests is usually a
bad thing, I have only just noticed).

Regardless of the scare stores, 'spyware' can't just manafest itself on your
PC, thats illegal - exam same defenition as a trojan.

- MR

 

[Guest]

so.. if we never used IE we would not have spyware
problems in the first place right?

so we should not complain when ms performs animal testing
on users under the degisnation of BETA to make up for the
whopping security holes in their other apps that they
don't care to fix?

I never had my hosts file rewritten simply by visiting a
site with firefox or netscape.

so the soultion is:
Don't address the root of the problem, simply reinvent
(poorly) the bandaid and slap it over the festering wound.

Yes indeed, stop complaining, it's all our own faults for
ever trusting these mooks in the first place.

 

[J. S. Jackson]

so.. if we never used IE we would not have spyware
problems in the first place right?

This is a ridiculous statement. I suppose when some 'tard installs
Kazaa, or the like,
IE is responsible for the installation of the spyware that is bundled
with it?

The great majority of spyware is installed due to uninformed users
clicking "open" "run" "ok" "install" to ANY dialogue box which pops
into their view.

In addition, many people LIKE spyware, believe it or not! A recent
poll at a major university (sorry I can't find the link at the moment)
showed that nearly 60% of students said that they didn't mind spyware
being installed on their computer when it was bundled with a usefull
program. They were (apparently) fearful that if the spyware portion of
the package was removed from the product, they would have to pay for
it. In that case, they'd rather have the spyware.

They also tended to minimize the severity of the privacy violation that
they were being subjected to, with statements like: "Who cares if they
know what sites I browse?" or "It's not like they're using my credit
card or something, most of the stuff spyware collects is harmless".