MS's Spyware program missed a lot

C

CBI110

I DL'd and ran Microsoft's spyware program and I must say
that I am VERY dissapointed.

It did find 7 threats and deleted them but it missed
others. I immediately ran Spybot v 1.3 and found 13 more
serious ones that MS's program did not find.

It may be best to run MS's program IN ADDITION to Spybot
and AD-Aware.

Oh, by the way, I'm running XP Home and have Norton System
Works and Norton Internet Security and encountered no
problems with Norton after running MS's program.
 
J

Jon G

Before jumping to conclusions you need to be sure of a couple things:

A: It's early on and it may not find everything.

B. Those extra detections you found with Spybot may have been DSO exploits
and/or cookies. The DSO exploit is a false positive on the part of Spybot
and MSAS does not scan cookies.
 

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