Microsoft AntiSpyware

[Vagabond Software]

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5590042.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed

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Wow! Microsoft is offering $5 more than any other anti-spyware company.
Great find Kurt.

carl

 

[Vagabond Software]

Has anyone else tested the AntiSpyware beta from Microsoft. I have found
that it does not catch very much spyware. I ran Adaware, and spybot
after, and I catch things that MS missed. I have to admit I am a little
disappointed it the performance. I guess I expected more. What do you
all think. Any comments?

You may be seeing Ad-Aware picking up "marginal" tracking cookies and such
where Microsoft does not hit on those by default. I've use Ad-Aware and the
MS Anti-Spyware Beta and I think the MS product does a fine job though there
are some annoyances.

My personal computer may not be the best test case since it has been months
(many months) since any anti-spyware program has sniffed even a tracking
cookie on my machine. However, some of the client computers that have
agreed to use the MS Spyware are reporting good performance.

carl

 

[kurttrail]

Wow! Microsoft is offering $5 more than any other anti-spyware
company. Great find Kurt.

carl

Of course it is MS's security-challenged OS that created a demand for
anti-spyware software in the first place, so they should pay us to use
it, but I'm sure MS has a list of excuses 1000 terrabyte long why they
won't pay someone the $5, if something goes wrong with their
anti-spyware program.

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"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"

 

[Linda B]

A thousand terabytes is a petabyte. And that's a LOT of excuses.

 

[AD]

Really? I live in the euro zone. 100 US dollars ain't much money here since
George WMD Bush took over JesusLand. Now if you want to add three zeros, I
might consider it. The main thing I use is safe hex along with some products
like Spybot, Search & Destroy, AdAware SE, Spywareblaster, Spywareguard and
CWShredder. If need be, I use HijackThis.

In addition I have a NAT router, TrendMicro and Sygate.

You are more paranoid than a mate of mine, I am shocked that there is
someone.

I downloaded MS anti-spyware thing and did nto think much of it, pokes
it head up to many times. I uninstalled it a couple of days after.
I use Adaware and spybot, with Avast for Virus and sygate for the
firewall. Like you I am also behind a NAT router which do help.

 

[AD]

"Proving the point that EULA's are widely ignored, PC Pitstop recently
inserted a "special consideration" clause in its agreement that offered
money to anyone who sent an e-mail to an address contained in the license.
After 3,000 downloads and four months, one person finally took advantage of
the offer and received a check in the mail for $1,000, according to the
company's Web site."

Freakin' *hilarious*.

True, very true, not many people do look at the EULA's, myself included.
Mind you $1000 would convert to about 500 pounds here, so not much, but
still nice to have I suppose.

 

[AD]

I wouldn't download that piece of sh}t if you paid me.

Been there, done that, then got rid of it.

 

[kurttrail]

A thousand terabytes is a petabyte.

I guess it's lucky that South Park killed off all the members of PETA.
;-)

And that's a LOT of excuses.

Yeah, I figure the MS ExcuseBase, is much larger than the MS
KnowledgeBase.

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Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com/mscommunity
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"

 

[Tom]

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5590042.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed

The utter hilarity of a MS EULA! They want your effin' money in big number,
with, in some cases, no chance of ever giving a refund for it. They then
offer, what they purvey as a fix for the ignorant, and when they EULA-gize
their fix with the possibility of any damage that can one can incur from it,
they offer back from their humongous profit coffers, pennies on the
millions. LMAO!, I am glad I never gave that tool a second thought!

If MS consumers really want to learn trustworthy computing, their best bet
to learn is in the media forums like these, instead of helping MS not incur
paying tech cost by unknowing consumers being the guinea pigs for their
crapware.