My findings

[Jim De Zorzi]

I installed Antispyware Beta about a month ago. The scan
scheduler works perfectly for me. Every day at 4:00
a.m. Scan takes approx. 19 minutes to cover 2 drives.

So far it has never reported finding any spyware,
hyjackers, etc. Now I know that MS Antisptware doesn't
look at cookies where most spyware can be found (don't
understand a beta version not doing that) but other
antispyware prograns such as Ad-aware SE and SpyHunter
both find other things as well. As far as I can see MS
Antispy is not detecting anything.

Has anyone else noted this? or am I just lucky?

 

[JohnF.]

I run MSAS on both my home computer and work computer as well as several
test machines. On my own computers, I have never found or had any spyware.
The scans occur like clockwork and the updates are always in place
automatically.

Incidently, cookies are not spyware since they are merely text files and do
not meet the criteria for spyware. They can be a privacy issue for some.

Please read this for further information:

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/analysis.mspx


JohnF.

 

[Franknoi]

-----Original Message-----
I installed Antispyware Beta about a month ago. The

I've been running MSAS for several weeks. The very first
time I ran it, it found 5 problems. Since then, ZERO. It
runs every day at 7,pm.

 

[Ron Chamberlin]

Hi Jim,
I'm betting that you have your machine updated regularly, have SP2, have a
current up to date AV program, and don't go places on the web where you'll
get trashed in a heartbeat. Good for you!

I get zero hits on my scans also. I do have a few web sites that I use to
test with a couple of testbunnie machines, and they'll vouch for the
efficiency of the proactive work of MWAS.

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP