MS AntiSpyware vs Ad-Aware

[Keith]

I have been using Ad-Aware for some time but recently
downloaded the MS beta version of MS Antispyware. Before
running the MS product, I scanned with Ad-Aware and
deleted 5 critical objects. Then, a scan with my new MS
product found 1 object that Ad-Aware did not detect. I
was impressed. However, since then, the MS product has
found no adware objects while Ad-Aware anywhere from 3 to
7 objects each time I did a scan. I made sure to
configure the MS Antispyware program for a full scan.

Has anyone had similar experiences?

 

[Otto Dobias]

I think you'll find that what Ad-Aware is finding are cookies that MS
Antispyware does not even look for.

 

[Randall]

Ad-Aware does find more items such as data miner files on
my computer. I dont believe the ms antispyware is fully
functional as yet. It still needs more reports of these
items in its database. This program is free and is more
or less a learning test study.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Ad-Aware does find more items such as data miner files on
my computer. I dont believe the ms antispyware is fully
functional as yet. It still needs more reports of these
items in its database. This program is free and is more
or less a learning test study.
.
will this be a problem when then official version is

released. And are spyware detected in cookies reallly a
big threat?If so, how do I scan the cookies with MS
Anitspyware?

 

[Ron Chamberlin]

There is no capability for scanning cookies in Beta1.

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP

 

[Guest]

I use spybot and it picks up things adaware misses. go to
www.download,com and type spybot in the search
O.B. O'Brien

 

[steve]

There seems to be a consistent pattern of each of the many
spyware vendors missing spyware. I found that even with
current updates, Adaware finds some that Spybot misses and
VS Versa. Then MS/Giant finds some that they miss but if
you only run MS/Giant some people say it misses what the
others find. If you run Hijack This, it finds 99% but you
have to know what each item is to remove it. Personally I
have trouble with Hijack This because I have no clue what
a process named something like Bdthekp17456-S717765-e
might be. It's prob gonna be spyware but one may kill a
perfectly good process. Also, these spyware programs
change things. I found one that replaced notepad.exe with
another copy that looked the same so the spyware went
right over it. First time notepad was run, spyware was
back. It is a war. The only way to 100% get rid of an
infection right now is save your data, zerofill the
harddrive and reinstall the OS and software, then restore
your data. That said, MS/Giant is doing the right thing
by having the orogram report home with spyware it finds.
Once their database is built and they know what they are
up against, their programmers will find a way to beat most
of it I think.