Re MS's "anti-spyware" LOL! Sounds sooo funny!!!

[Helen]

MS "anti-spyware" program ran for ? minutes (I forgot to time it)...but less than 5
minutes, and reports the following: BTW, it only checked 20,000 files.

Spyware Scan Details
Start Date: 1/10/2005 6:29:46 PM
End Date: 1/10/2005 6:32:29 PM
Total Time: 2 mins 43 secs

Detected Threats
No spyware threats were found during this scan.

Spy-bot S&D ran for 2 minutes (setting is to check ALL) and reports:
"Congratulations!" "No spyware found on this computer."

Ad-Adware runs for nearly thirty minutes, checked 145,228 files and
reports "No spyware!"

Sooo...... Ad-Aware is the most thorough? That's how it appears to me.
BTW, I put that "squire... thingy" MS called 'spyware' in the BLOCK sites!

Hummmm..... what's going on? Slickwillie's program looks VERY much
like Ad-Aware. Maybe it's collecting info from our computers and intends
to make us pay BIG BUCKS in July? I dunno. But I'll keep it on here for
a while and see what gives.

 

[Remove Underscores]

MS "anti-spyware" program ran for ? minutes (I forgot to time it)...but
less than 5
minutes, and reports the following: BTW, it only checked 20,000 files.

Spyware Scan Details
Start Date: 1/10/2005 6:29:46 PM
End Date: 1/10/2005 6:32:29 PM
Total Time: 2 mins 43 secs

Detected Threats
No spyware threats were found during this scan.

Spy-bot S&D ran for 2 minutes (setting is to check ALL) and reports:
"Congratulations!" "No spyware found on this computer."

Ad-Adware runs for nearly thirty minutes, checked 145,228 files and
reports "No spyware!"

Sooo...... Ad-Aware is the most thorough? That's how it appears to me.
BTW, I put that "squire... thingy" MS called 'spyware' in the BLOCK sites!

Hummmm..... what's going on? Slickwillie's program looks VERY much
like Ad-Aware. Maybe it's collecting info from our computers and intends
to make us pay BIG BUCKS in July? I dunno. But I'll keep it on here for
a while and see what gives.

Let me get this straight. You ran three scanning programs, and none of them
found anything on your computer, but by your estimation the one that is the
slowest is the most thorough? Whatever.

 

[Frank Bohan]

Let me get this straight. You ran three scanning programs, and none of
them found anything on your computer, but by your estimation the one that
is the slowest is the most thorough? Whatever.

Could I add Bazooka to the OPs three. It takes less than two seconds to scan
28GB on my computer, and has never found anything. The OP thinks that the
slowest is the most thorough -- Bazooka must claim some sort of record for
speed! The online encyclopedia is worth bookmarking.

http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/library/index.phtml?source=appvisit
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html?source=appvisit

===

Frank Bohan
¶ Willpower is the ability to eat one salted peanut.

 

[Helen]

Let me get this straight. You ran three scanning programs, and none of them found
anything on your computer, but by your estimation the one that is the slowest is the
most thorough? Whatever.

Ad-Aware checked ALL files in every folder. The others did NOT!
Of course Ad-Aware can be set to eliminate checking certain folders.
It seems to me that if one is checking for sypware, it would behoove one
to check ALL folders. These days it's not impossible that those tracking
cookies could be squirreled away in who knows where locales.

 

[Rod]

Ad-Aware checked ALL files in every folder. The others did NOT!

They work in different ways. Spybot checks if the files on the list are on
the harddisk, while Adaware checks if the files on the harddisk are on
their list.

 

[H-Man]

SNIP<<

Sooo...... Ad-Aware is the most thorough? That's how it appears to me.
BTW, I put that "squire... thingy" MS called 'spyware' in the BLOCK sites!

Okay, I just can't let this one go.
Did you actually think before you posted? These programs (AD-Aware and
Spybot S&D) work differently from one another. They compliment each other,
and should both be installed on your system. The first releases of Ad-Aware
6.0 were much slower than the later releases, did this make them more
thorough? As they are checking for different things, it seems rather
foolish to try to compare them on the basis of scan times and files
scanned.

 

[Helen]

Okay, I just can't let this one go.

thorough? As they are checking for different things, it seems rather
foolish to try to compare them on the basis of scan times and files
scanned.

You MISSED the point! Bottom line: MS's 'anti-spyware' program
does NOT check ALL files! End of point! All your verbosity about
being foolish for comparing programs re scan times (due to the number of
files they check ---- THAT and ONLY that is relevant!). I posted my
experience with the MS program! That's ALL! FYI I've used Ad-Aware
and SpyBot since they first came out! MS's venture into the area changed
nothing with regard to my continuing to use the two former programs.

 

[Remove Underscores]

You MISSED the point! Bottom line: MS's 'anti-spyware' program
does NOT check ALL files! End of point! All your verbosity about
being foolish for comparing programs re scan times (due to the number of
files they check ---- THAT and ONLY that is relevant!). I posted my
experience with the MS program! That's ALL! FYI I've used Ad-Aware
and SpyBot since they first came out! MS's venture into the area changed
nothing with regard to my continuing to use the two former programs.

Find us a spyware that MS antispyware doesn't detect and your point might be
valid. Right now you have absolutely nothing to go on other than your
statement that it "does NOT check ALL files!"

 

[Helen]

Find us a spyware that MS antispyware doesn't detect and your point might be valid.
Right now you have absolutely nothing to go on other than your statement that it
"does NOT check ALL files!"

It's a fact! If you want to agrue, go elsewhere. Life is too precious and fleeting!
As far as what I have to go on, YOU HAVE NO IDEA, just your opinion...
which is like a specific part of the anatonomy, everyone has one.

 

[H-Man]

You MISSED the point! Bottom line: MS's 'anti-spyware' program
does NOT check ALL files! End of point! All your verbosity about
being foolish for comparing programs re scan times (due to the number of
files they check ---- THAT and ONLY that is relevant!). I posted my
experience with the MS program! That's ALL! FYI I've used Ad-Aware
and SpyBot since they first came out! MS's venture into the area changed
nothing with regard to my continuing to use the two former programs.

Okay whatever.
You posted that MS's anti-spyware program does not check all files. FYI,
neither does Spybot S&D. Seems to me that you kinda painted them with the
same brush, even though you say you had no intention of this. My
"verbosity" was intended to inform those that might not know that your
conclusion was based on assumptions only. Of course you did say that "it
appears that way to me". So I should appologise, you did, afterall, tell
the good people that you were only stating opinion, not fact.

 

[Helen]

Okay whatever.
You posted that MS's anti-spyware program does not check all files. FYI,
neither does Spybot S&D. Seems to me that you kinda painted them with the
same brush, even though you say you had no intention of this. My
"verbosity" was intended to inform those that might not know that your
conclusion was based on assumptions only. Of course you did say that "it
appears that way to me". So I should appologise, you did, afterall, tell
the good people that you were only stating opinion, not fact.

You sneerilgly state what you purport to frame as derogratively - some evil
or terribly bad thing: ASSUMPTIONS! LOL! Everybody has them and
uses them EVERYDAY. Your posts are FULL of ASSumptions!
EVERY person, that includes YOU makes EVERY comment based on
ASSumptions! Get over it! There's no such thing as making ANY statement
without ASSUMPTIONS! You may deny it, or not recognize it, but
EVERY WORD FROM YOU MOUTH IS BASED ON ASSUMPTIONS -
just like [d]evolution's theory and the God of "science". There are legal
assumptions, "scientific" assumptions, and any other adjectvie you want to
dress them up in. Nonetheless, as 'the Bard' stated, "a rose by any other color'...

 

[Rod]

news:[email protected]...

snip

added OT to subject for filtering purposes.

 

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EVERY WORD FROM YOU MOUTH IS BASED ON ASSUMPTIONS -

Nonetheless, as 'the Bard' stated, "a rose by any other color'...

I assume you mean Shakespeare, in which case it's 'name' rather than
'color'.

 

[Susan Bugher]

I assume you mean Shakespeare, in which case it's 'name' rather than
'color'.

or as Gertrude Stein put it: "A rose is a rose is a rose."

Susan

 

[jo]

or as Gertrude Stein put it: "A rose is a rose is a rose."

Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms
But which will bloom most constantly?

The wild-rose briar is sweet in the spring,
Its summer blossoms scent the air;
Yet wait till winter comes again
And who will call the wild-briar fair?

Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now
And deck thee with the holly's sheen,
That when December blights thy brow
He may still leave thy garland green.

Emily Bronte

 

[Sweet Andy Licious]

"H-Man" <[email protected]> wrote in message

---snip---


Helen, chill out. MS stuff is based on a product bought from Giant which
IIRC was payware and had some great reviews. I am not going to dismiss it so
easily as one better than the other. I use all three. I ran MS stuff and it
found 5 hits and deleted or quarantined them at my request; I then ran
Adaware which found an additional one and I delete it; then Spybot which
found 3 more.

Good grief, take it easy...

 

[Helen]

LOL! Thanks for the correction!
Indeed it is 'name'.

 

[Helen]

---snip---


Helen, chill out. MS stuff is based on a product bought from Giant which
IIRC was payware and had some great reviews. I am not going to dismiss it so
easily as one better than the other. I use all three. I ran MS stuff and it
found 5 hits and deleted or quarantined them at my request; I then ran
Adaware which found an additional one and I delete it; then Spybot which
found 3 more.

Good grief, take it easy...


--
Andy


email: sweetandylicious at eml dot cc

GOOD GRIEF! I don't need to chill out; merely responding in kind.
BTW, I use all three also. And FWIW, remember that little one that
MS's program found that no one had heard of? Well, I uninstalled the
program then re-installed it and now they require validation for your
program, and after installing and running it this time, their(?) little culprit
wasn't on this one. Perhaps that was as a 'test'? Whatever. It is made
very clear that it will expire on 31 July 2005. Articles state that MS is
unsure about what they're going to do with it.

 

[Chewy Zekelo]

Lady, you're way over the top.

From your very first post, which contained some erroneous assumptions,
to the latest.

It's easy to be anti-MS, but as this product is theirs by name only you
need to be less automatically critical and stop all the shouting.

FWIW: I have no intention of even bothering with MS. I use adaware,
spybot, and that's just going to have to do. Better than nothing at
all. And one can chase who missed what from ANY program for the rest of
their lives.

 

[Joe Bloggs]

or as Gertrude Stein put it: "A rose is a rose is a rose."

To keep up this off-topic pedantry, she actually wrote "Rose is a
rose..." without the indefinite article. Some critics believe that
she was referring not to the flower, but to a sculptor friend called
Rose whose first name escapes me.