To A McGuire,
Sorry i'm unable to provide you with the
statistics as i only kept the MS antispy installed for a
week CPU Usage was always between 80 and 98 % even when i
wasnt using the internet which resulted in everything i
tried to do taking ages to open or just freezing
i never wrote the statistics down as at the time didnt
relate them to MS antispy same with norton i have Norton
Internet Security and Norton system works both 2004 and
in the week i had MS antispy got the error 'Norton has
encountered a internal error,Please uninstall and then
reinstall' about 8 times in that week but when i removed
the MSAS the problems stopped CPU usage was back to
between 0 and 10 % depending what i was doing and Norton
has not shown any errors messages since and is working
fine again now,
Occasionally the live update would work but most of the
time it would run and then say the installs had failed
and i should run it again but when running again would
get the same messages.Again i did not link that to MS
antispy at the time but never uninstalled norton which
was advised but decided to remove MS antispy instead and
Norton worked fine since,I know its hard to prove exactly
what was causing it but with the CPU usage and norton
returning to normal after removing MS antispy i then
assumed that caused it.
That wasnt my only issue with it,the green pop-up saying
it had allowed changes and then on the same pop-up in
black it would also say it blocked the changes was very
annoying and happened even on windows updates,plus
spelling mistakes,The phantom browser hijacker that i
know didnt exist as i searched the program
files,registry,manage add ons screen,and even made a
hijack this log and examined every entry and still the MS
antispy said i had a search hijacker that was a high
threat and needed immediate attention so rebooted into
safe mode and run again but it always showed the same
result and i would always choose to delete it which it
said it had done but could run scan after scan and it
would always say i had a search hijacker and always said
it deleted it,
i could understand if i was rebooting each time and it
was regenerating but i stayed in safe mode and kept
running it and eventually it just started freezing when
it got to the delete part and then saying the program is
not responding plus with the members on here saying i
should only use beta if im prepared to have loads of
faults with the program which im not prepared to do i
decided i am better of without it as ive never had a
trojan infection or adware problem as i have plenty of
protection but have helped friends and family etc. to
remove malware from thiers plus have helped out on Hijack
This site's a few times in the past as L.Eagle so usually
know all the signs and know how to deal with most bugs
that come up
It gave me the impression it had been written by some
kids for a school project rather the a antispy program
written by microsoft so felt safer once it was off my pc
as it was blocking windows updates and messing with
norton in some way plus got to the point whenever i chose
to delete the search hijacker it would freeze and say its
not responding and did i want to send a error report,
Like i say though it had only just come out and i used it
within a few days of it being released so maybe your
version is updated from the one i used and the problems
may have already been addressed and fixed,But even so i
feel safer without it which suprises me with it being
made by microsoft,but im sure its going to get better and
is probably alot better now than when i tried it so
wouldnt want to put anyone off using it,Its just not for
me while its in the testing stage and when it gets
released in the future will give it a try again but like
i say i use the net alot and have never had a problem
with trojans or adware ive had the odd virus through
kazaa lite(Which i removed last year sometime) in the
past mainly trojan.moo but again its never affected me as
norton had always dealt with it before it got onto my
system,I use trendhousecall cwshredder,spyware guard,spy
sweeper,spy ware blaster,Norton Antivirus,Yahoo
Antispy,Spybot,Adaware.CCleaner and a few other so
personally dont feel the need to add another especially
not one which is still as the testing stage
Hope this answers your question Mate
Andy
