atw: Re: Anyone tried Microsoft anti-spyware?
- From: "Jonn Mero" <jmero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:52:49 -0800
You sound a little bit harsh, Michael.
Though no great lover of MS's ethics (or lack of), or many of their
programs (but, like most, I use 'em), their Beta spyware-remover worked
by the looks of it.
Tried most of the others for 'free' till I found all they did was to
scan the files and tell me that it was imperative to remove the
pitifully few files they found. At a cost (US$30 approx. for any of
them).
It is still early days, but the MS one seems to have freed up something,
because the ol' girl (computers ARE female, how else could you explain
their moodiness?!) is much quicker and happier.
Man kan gjoere en skjelm urett as we say in Norway.
(translates to something like : You can do a scoundrel injustice)
And maybe I should support my countrymen and switch to Opera (from
Netscape).
Cheers,
Jonn
-----Original Message-----
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Edward
Granat
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 4:30 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Anyone tried Microsoft anti-spyware?
What can I say, Allan (C)?
I always thought that the simplest way to avoid installing
any spyware was to avoid installing any Microsloth
slothware at all.
In fact, I once rang up Vet (back when they were Aussie
owned) and asked them if they had anything that would
allow operators to stop Microsloth's automated installers
on CD from taking over my PC and insisting on installing
whatever it had, as I saw this as typifying the actions
of a virus.
That aside, I have found AdAware to be an absolutely
marvellous tool. Useful and non-destructive to my files.
(If an anti-spyware tool gets too aggressive in
"cleansing" things, it could do untold damage in such
fragile environments as WinDoze, where a spaghetti of key
files holds the whole mess together by a al dente noodle.)
As I almost never use the Internet Exploder Web Bruiser
(except as an absolute last resort) flushing its cookies,
grabbed files and history immediately afterward - and
mainly use Opera instead. I also flush Opera (Tools >
Delete Private Data...) at the end of each Web session,
so my home P of C stays very happy and healthy indeed.
Cheers,
Michael
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E&OE.
Quoting Allan Charlton <Allan.Charlton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I've stayed away from Microsoft's freebie anti-spyware for all the
> reasons recently discussed on this list, and I'm sticking with Spybot
> and Ad-Aware.
>
> Has anyone actually tried Microsoft's product?
>
> One of our programmers has downloaded it and he loves it. Is my
> colleague just a rusted-on Microsoft supporter, or is this new product
> worth downloading?
>
> Allan
>
>
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