atw: Re: Anyone tried Microsoft anti-spyware?
- From: "Hinton, Joshua P." <Joshua.Hinton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:41:34 +1100
Microsoft Anti-spyware is released free to Microsoft Genuine Software
users.=20
That is the intent. That was in the first press release.=20
J=20
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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of BJA
Sent: Monday, 7 February 2005 1:33 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Anyone tried Microsoft anti-spyware?
Personally I find it ironic that Microsoft (MS) now want to profit by
patching up the holes in their own software.
To me it's as if MS are issuing a beta bug fix for their software and
have given it a name: AntiSpyware. Does this mean in future that they
will further relax their security testing regime (such that the have)
because their AntiSpyware developers will cover any 'holes'?
BTW, anti-spyware software has been around for a while so I note with
amusement that Microsoft have joined the two words, to try and make it
unique enough to establish a trademark position. Once they do, they no
doubt will try and usurp the term "anti-spyware" as they did the .doc
format and many others. Geez they must have fun at their board meetings.
Cheers,
Bruce Ashley
Senior Technical Writer
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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jonn Mero
Sent: Tuesday, 8 February 2005 4:53 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Anyone tried Microsoft anti-spyware?
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
Michael E. Granat
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Fellowship Of The Ring Of Tech Writers, Yeah Baby!
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Without Prejudice.
E&OE.
Quoting Allan Charlton <Allan.Charlton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I've stayed away from Microsoft's freebie anti-spyware for all the=20
> reasons recently discussed on this list, and I'm sticking with Spybot=20
> and Ad-Aware.
>
> Has anyone actually tried Microsoft's product?
>
> One of our programmers has downloaded it and he loves it. Is my=20
> colleague just a rusted-on Microsoft supporter, or is this new product
> worth downloading?
>
> Allan
>
>
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