Outlook/E-mail intergration and installer intergration

[Peter]

HI, I am not a technical I.T person but i know a bit or two

Alot of spyware comes when you download a free software, is
it possible to check for spyware as it downloads and installs?

Also can it intergrate with outlook express as I find a lot
of spyware comes through this way, along with viruses.

I have not seen any signs of realtime protection, as i go
on a site which i know may contain spyware and i run the
scan afterwards and it finds it spyware.

Otherwise i am very pleased with it, the spynet is a good
idea, does it go to a microsoft server and alert of a new
one so all other computers can be alerted and updated.

I have found that it finds more spyware than adware, but
adware finds different ones. Does MS antispyware scan
memory and files? i have spybot which scans memory only,
so a combination of the three keeps well covered. Plus
spyware blaster which is realtime internet blocker.

Anyway fix the problems and get it launched!

Peter

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[Ron Chamberlin]

Hi Peter,

Alot of spyware comes when you download a free software, is
it possible to check for spyware as it downloads and installs?

I would suggest being poractive. Read the EULA before you do it. There's a
fine line between spyware and malware etc in that a lot of it is installed
with the permission of the user. The fine print at about page 50 of some of
these EULA's is the hook.

I have found that it finds more spyware than adware, but
adware finds different ones.>

This version of the Beta doesn't look at cookies.

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Peter--there is considerable active monitoring in the product--not the same
kind of bit by bit examination of filestreams that you see with an antivirus
application, but a large number of "integration points" with the OS and some
applications are monitored.

See: Tools, real-time protection (pick one of the three types of agents,
and look at the descriptions of the checkpoints monitored.)