Cost

[Phil]

Does anyone know if the versons after beta will be free
as well?

 

[Paul L.]

free until at least June (or was that July?)
After that MS hasn't decided yet whether they will charge a fee or offer
this service for free.

 

[Interested]

They should in order to keep it competitive with already
free produces like Ad-Aware (basic) and Spybot.

 

[Ray D. [MVP]]

Microsoft should definitely keep it free. I think it would actually make it
easier to sell PCs to wary consumers.

My $.02.

 

[{don}]

They should in order to keep it competitive with already
free produces like Ad-Aware (basic) and Spybot.

Spybot and AdAware will not be true competitors unless they get a major
upgrade. Most of the new spyware is not detected or removed by them. Many
of you are going to be very surprised when you get a look at all the things
on your computer that the free scanners missed.

The spyware detection/removal field is very fluid right now. I doubt
whether Microsoft knows exactly what it will do in June or July.

Sunbelt says they may make their product, CounterSpy, which is a clone of
the Microsoft product, free for home users but sell the enterprise version.
They seem to have co ownership (?) of the antispyware code until 2007 (?).

Anyway 6 months is 2 internet years. Who knows what will happen.

We have been given a great gift by Microsoft. Use it.

{don}

 

[James Pfaff [MS MVP]]

Not to mention it would put a huge dent in the spyware,
adware, and malware industry. If it's kept free it'll
also give Microsoft a better reputation among the entire
computer based industry.

 

[Packetstorm]

Keeping the service free would alos ease peoples mind
that the fuctionality of Spyware and Malware wasnt put
there by MS itself. :O .. (just like viruses arnt written
by the antivirus companies!!) Yeah right...

 

[Guest]

This should have been included in service pack 2. We
already payed $200 for windows XP pro, we shouldn't have
to pay any more.

 

[Martin Zugec]

I think best for everyone should be if personal edition
will be free and enterprise for money....

 

[Guest]

Bundling it may cause anti competition issues, especially
when MS launch the AV tools they bought last year.

 

[Mark Gendall]

This should have been included in service pack 2. We
already payed $200 for windows XP pro, we shouldn't have
to pay any more.



charge a fee or offer

IMHO

It should be part of the Security Center (sic) on Windows XP SP 2.5...

Perhaps along with the forthcoming MS Anti Virus package!

 

[J]

I have to disagree with you, I hardly would call this
"Great". I say be weary of any beta, let alone one from
Microsoft.

"Spybot and AdAware will not be true competitors unless
they get a major upgrade. Most of the new spyware is not
detected or removed by them. Many of you are going to be
very surprised when you get a look at all the things on
your computer that the free scanners missed."

This Beta is free of charge yet you put down Spybot and AA
but you call Microsoft's Great? I franky like removing
spyware manually and then running one of those to remove
extra junk that doesn't really do much except for take up
space. So I say, do a search to remove what you are
infected with and remove manually and then run a scanner of
your choice.

 

[Lee Nichols]

Aww man Mark, that would be like asking for the moon-----But it would indeed
be great

 

[Seth H Holmes]

They should in order to keep it competitive with already
free produces like Ad-Aware (basic) and Spybot.

M$ doesn't "compete" with free products. They don't need to have
anti-spyware working in order to sell Windows. It may be usable to sell
upgrades, but not neccessary to selling Windows. If they include it free,
are they just trying to put everyone else out? Spybot is developed by a
team of people who do the work in their free time and while it's a great
product, has it's flaws and one cannot readily complain to the people
donating their time.

What I'd like to see is the Anti-Spyware package included in the Pro
version of the software. Although this is unlikely, in a corporate
environment, this sort of thing is really needed yet difficult to manage.
It would give home users an incentive to upgrade.

(Damn, I should work in marketing.)

 

[Don Dewiel }551217{]

Just had to say "Hi" to my friend Lee. Good to see you are still around.
This winter is eating up my coal supply. Any chance of a shipment soon?

Aww man Mark, that would be like asking for the moon-----But it would
indeed be great

--
Lee Nichols [550991]

IMHO

It should be part of the Security Center (sic) on Windows XP SP 2.5...

Perhaps along with the forthcoming MS Anti Virus package!

 

[Don Dewiel }551217{]

I agree. Thanks again, MSFT!

Spybot and AdAware will not be true competitors unless they get a major
upgrade. Most of the new spyware is not detected or removed by them.
Many
of you are going to be very surprised when you get a look at all the
things
on your computer that the free scanners missed.

The spyware detection/removal field is very fluid right now. I doubt
whether Microsoft knows exactly what it will do in June or July.

Sunbelt says they may make their product, CounterSpy, which is a clone of
the Microsoft product, free for home users but sell the enterprise
version.
They seem to have co ownership (?) of the antispyware code until 2007 (?).

Anyway 6 months is 2 internet years. Who knows what will happen.

We have been given a great gift by Microsoft. Use it.

{don}