MS-Anti vs. Ad-Aware

[Guest]

I've used Ad-Aware for about a year. Only shortfall is
it runs manually, and does not "learn" from the
detections it makes.

I installed MS AntiSpyware today - ran a scan and it came
up totally clean. Immediately I ran Ad-Aware and it
fould eight (8) Critical Objects.

Any thoughts?

 

[JohnF.]

Cookies and Data Miners - MSAS is not scanning for them at this point since
they are merely text files with a possible privacy issue but not spyware.

 

[Andre Da Costa]

1) Submit suspected spyware report in the tools menu of Antispyware
2) Reboot in safe mode and run a deep scan

 

[Robear Dyer, MS MVP]

See thread with Subject "spywares found by Ad-aware and not by MSAS" in
Announcements newsgroup.
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