Colon-
I couldn't agree more with you, however I must say that I tried a copy of
Counterspy which was GIANT but released by Sunbelt. While I never tried any
other version from the screenshots I saw Sunbelts was identical except for
the name (same engine and same interface - they licensed it I think). What I
found was a program that was basically cheating and returning over 50% false
positives. To be fair the CEO of Sunbelt reccomended trying a newer version
of the defs which did resolve the false positive issue, however I do not
believe those initial false positives were unintentional (one example of the
flase positives was it recognized the flash plug-in as something called
Search Squire). I trust Microsoft enough to know that practice won't
continue now that they are involved but since the review you posted was
pre-MS I wonder if the results were at all skewed by the fact that the defs
were written by cheaters (I dont know what defs were used so maybe they were
clean - they seem to alternate clean, dirty, clean, dirty, etc). Also
possibly it was just Sunbelt's defs that cheat, which oddly enough was
exactly what I expected to see from them.
Anyway this wasn't said in disagreement but more just throwing it out there
for people to consider if they want.
Thanks,
Nick
