I HATE that I might have to admit v.MS & Anti Spyware.
I have always believed in the power of Ad-Aware and Spybot ran on one system to keep it clean and free of Ad/Spyware. They work together great (Although this was not the case when they were both new). Well, here at work I have ran Ad-Aware and Spybot on this XP Home computer over and over again. It started out with a ton of Ad/Spyware. I ran both programs until the computer was "spotless". Today I decided I would give the maker of the worlds buggiest products a try. I installed Microsoft's:
Microsoft Antispyware Beta1.
I left all the default settings as I went through the install. Right when it was installed I was alerted right away that "Messanger Services" was running. It even gave me a small read on what that was. It said it has been known to cause many pop-ups. It then gave me two options. I clicked "Stop" It already had a check box checked for me so that it would remember my decision. So far, so good. Microsoft? Good? Strange.
Next came the scan.
Ad-aware as I have said, came up clear!
Spybot, the same.
Now I ran Microsoft's Spy/Adware prog.
32 infected files!
To some of you 32 may not seem like a lot, but something that really caught my eye is the fact that almost every single thing found were things Spybot and Ad-Aware had supposedly REMOVED!
I hate, HATE, HATE, and HATE Microsoft and most of thier products, but maybe this is worth a look...?
Try it out. You be the judge.
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LINK: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...en&Hash=M5X9DQ4
Note: I did the deep scan.
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