MSAS and all it's problems!

[Perry]

Why can't MS hire someone, possibly from AdAware or
Spybot, that knows something about an anti-spyware
program? This MSAS is getting to be riddled with small
and large problems. You can't even submit a suspected
spyware report.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Perry - I can assure you that the Microsoft development team working on this
product does know what they are doing, and that the beta2 product will show
that.

As it is, beta1 rates very highly in every comparative review of antispyware
applications--and beta2 will be better.

Yes there are lots of little nits to pick with the beta1 product. However,
it has been out there cleaning our systems for 8 months now and doing
considerable good in the world. I'm very glad that it is, nits and all.

--

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Perry, hopefully we will see tremendous changes and improvements in beta 2.
To be honest, its sort of long in the tooth regardless of the refresh
updates. Hopefully with PDC 2005 coming plus beta 2 of IE 7 we will see some
sort of Beta 2 Preview to coincide with such a release of IE.
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Andre
Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
FAQ for MS AntiSpy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm

 

[BobA5835]

Hi there:

Boys, boys, play nice. There are enough idiots and
idiocy groups to go around, we'll fit you in somewhere. I
find you both guilty of flaming and you are hereby fined
$1.00 each. Please send it to the charity of your choice
for hurricane relief.

"It's a Beta!"...and it's free!

BobA5835

 

[Perry]

You're right! My dollar is on the way Judge. I live in
Louisiana and am kind of moody but that's no excuse.
Sorry and I know MS is trying their best. Thanks

 

[Alan]

I'm sorry too.

I didn't mean to call you an idiot. What I meant was
that many people just don't have a clue as to what a beta
truely is. The way these people come off is they sound
like idiots because they thnk they know everything and
they don't know jack when it comes to computer
programming and the testing process of these
applications. A beta is a work-in-progress and it's
bound to have problems, such as those experienced by
people testing Netscape, and many other products.

After reading Andy's reply, I do remember that many
people have been having problems submitting reports to
MS. In this case, I'd suggest to uninstall the
application through Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove
Programs, delete the entire MSAS folder from c:\program
files, reboot the system, reinstall the app, and reboot
once again. Doing this has helped many of us fix issues
that have cropped up in the past.

Rest assured MS is working on a much better app for the
future. There's been talk they might even be changing
the source code from Visual BASIC to a more robust
programming language such as C++, likely .NET, or even
C# .NET. If that's the case, then the entire app is
likely going to be far better than it currently is. We
might even see the removal of the AutoUpdater, which
could be replaced by WindowsUpdate.

Alan

 

[Anonymous Bob]

Make certain that if you are using a wireless connection
that the WiFi Connection checkpoint in Real-time
Protection's Internet Agent is turned off, as this can
cause a problem connecting to the Internet.

<snip>

Alan,

I'm using WiFi and have no such problems, but I'd be greatly interested in
the basis for your statement.

Respectfully,
Bob Vanderveen

 

[Perry]

Thanks for the suggestions Alan. I'll try reinstalling to
see if that helps. Thanks

 

[plun]

Anonymous Bob explained :

<snip>

Alan,

I'm using WiFi and have no such problems, but I'd be greatly interested in
the basis for your statement.

Respectfully,
Bob Vanderveen

Hi

Also using WiFi for one laptop and one standalone PC with no problems !

Any "Njorton" program running ? Symantec is totally "out of control"
nowadays so maybe that is the main problem !?

Symantec maybe believes that they can control Windows but that is
totally wrong, uninstall it directly and choose a Windows friendly
protection program.

IMHO

 

[Anonymous Bob]

Any "Njorton" program running ? Symantec is totally "out of control"
nowadays so maybe that is the main problem !?

Symantec maybe believes that they can control Windows but that is
totally wrong, uninstall it directly and choose a Windows friendly
protection program.

IMHO

I'm running WiFi and NAV 2002 on one partition, NAV 2005 on another
partition, both with no problems. However I do understand why some people
dislike Symantec. ;-)

YMMV.

Bob Vanderveen

 

[~ Free Spirit ~]

Why can't MS hire someone, possibly from AdAware or
Spybot, that knows something about an anti-spyware
program? This MSAS is getting to be riddled with small
and large problems. You can't even submit a suspected
spyware report.

===================
What are you talking about - some of us can't even get updates. The MSAS
program can't detect that we're connected to the Internet.

FS~

 

[~ Free Spirit ~]

Perry - I can assure you that the Microsoft development team working on
this product does know what they are doing, and that the beta2 product
will show that.

=====================
I hope someone tells them that there are people out here who can't get
updates because the program can't see/find/use our Internet connections.
:-(

FS~

 

[Bill Sanderson]

So far, the main causes of that message appear to me to be either:

1) the server is, in fact down. (not likely, for any extended period of
time)
2) there's a third-party firewall, or perhaps a hosts entry, or something
blocking communications.

--

 

[Alan]

There's been problems reported in the past to this
newsgroup that the checkpoint is in fact buggy and had to
be deactivated because it was blocking people from
accessing their router.

I'm not the only one whose told people to do this.

Alan

 

[Anonymous Bob]

There's been problems reported in the past to this
newsgroup that the checkpoint is in fact buggy and had to
be deactivated because it was blocking people from
accessing their router.

Thank you.

Bob Vanderveen

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I've never given this advice and haven't observed it myself.

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