MS-ASW vs Ad-Aware

[KR]

I first removed all critical objects found with Ad-Aware and then scanned
with MS-ASW which found 1 object that Ad-Aware did not.

However, since then, MS-ASW has found nothing while Ad-Aware continually
finds many critical objects.

Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Microsoft Antispyware doesn't look at cookies in this release. I'm
surprised that ad-aware views cookies as critical objects, but that's
probably the difference.

 

[gary]

You are doing wrong - ad-ware classifies any cookies as
critical objects that it ony thinks are bad, even if the
cookies are no longer bad. Two cookies from My.MSN and on
cookie from My.Yahoo show bad on ad-ware, but are not
found with MS-ASW. Many cookies that ad-ware finds are
not bad. It finds cookies that allows sites like MSN,
Yahoo, and other major sites give you local and state
area advertisement specific ads with no information other
than being able to read your ip location (anyone can,
even me, lookup WHOIS). Ad-aware removes them. If you
actually find some real spy ware in the critical objects
post again, but if all your critical objects are a number
of tracking cookies no problem. I get those tacking
cookies too, but the cookies I get are not bad.

 

[Gary]

You are NOT DOING ANYTHING WRONG. Typo on the first one I
should have typed NOT sorry
I still use ad-aware and spybot to check the quality of
MS-ASW

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
I first removed all critical objects found with Ad-Aware and then scanned
with MS-ASW which found 1 object that Ad-Aware did not.

However, since then, MS-ASW has found nothing while Ad- Aware continually
finds many critical objects.

Am I doing something wrong?


.
I don't think so. AdAware targets the registery files

while MS-ASW (and grisoft's spybot search and destroy)
focus on application files. Sometimes certain sites will
create a "tracking cookie" that will appear in the
AdAware scan but is not technically a spyware executibale
program. I'm not an expert but have been fighting these
mal-ware things for years. -Greg