Microsoft AntiSpyware (Beta)

[Spalls Hurgenson]

"History Fan" <[email protected]> squirted these
wordjisms deep inside the bumtube of the newstwat in
news:[email protected]:

I agree completely, and have uninstalled it myself That's almost exactly
the same combination of three that I use (except I'm on Spybot 1.4 Beta
2) and since using those together with Firefox instead of IE, I have yet
to find any spyware on my machine.

I now only use IE for Windows updates, and even then I have to turn on
several services (Automatic updates and Background Intelligent Transfer
Service) and features (ActiveX, Javascript) that I normally leave
disabled because some components of IE get used by other programs.

I do the same thing, except in addition to the above I also point IE
to a non-existant proxy server (e.g., 10.0.0.1) and finally put IE
into "offline" mode. Yeah, there's a lot of malware that figure out
how to reach the Internet on their own, but a lot of the more
"legitimate" maleware (e.g., embedded advertising spyware) depends on
some combination of these settings and I don't feel like making it any
easier for them.

Microsoft AntiSpyware didn't find anything on my machine either; at
least AdAware entertains me by finding those "dangerous" MRU lists,
and Spybot S&D cheerfully warns me about DSO exploits ;-)

 

[Wattsville Blues]

And as far as I'm concerned, if doing so breaks functionality in poorly
coded websites, or if companies are forced to re-design their non-
standards compliant web applications, then so be it - that is what should
be done. Preferrably before the situation worsens.

Hear hear.