Antispyware

[Nabil]

To check Microsoft Antispyware affenciay,I downloded
another antispyware software from(Stop-sign)and ran a
scan for my system.During the scan of microsoft
Antispyware each day I get the message that no spyware
found,but when I ran the scan with Stop-Sign software it
found 23 spyware programs in my computer.My question is,
Which is telling the truth especialy the other spyuware
wants me to but it if I want to use the remove spyware
feature.Thank you in advance for your answer.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

There are antispyware products and there are spyware pretending to be
antispyware, or perhaps simply incompetent. Or, using a high rate of false
positives to "prove" their effectiveness.

http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm

is a useful reference.

In the case of your comparison, I suspect the difference will mainly be that
most antispyware products flag cookies (or "data miners") as threats. The
beta builds of Microsoft Antispyware distributed thus far do not scan
cookies at all--although this feature may be a part of a later beta build.