It isn't. Those words are deceiving. It can find some of the larger exploits but Microsoft tells you to make sure to use a good AV package too. ----- Original Message ----- From: Claus, Brian To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 10:08 AM Subject: [THIN] Re: MS Antivirus \ Spyware It >>IS<< an antivirus program: "WASHINGTON (AP) -- Microsoft Corp., whose popular Windows software is a frequent target for Internet viruses, is offering a free security program to remove the most dangerous infections from computers." If you looked at the article I linked there is a picture showing: "MSBLAST.A, SASSER and MyDoom as detected \ removed" Sounds like AV to me. --Brian -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Mann Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 9:26 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: MS Antivirus \ Spyware It's >NOT< an AntiVirus tool. It's AntiSpyware, and it labelled so. I just realized the subject from the original post said AntiVirus. That isn't correct. There's a grey area between something being a virus or spyware, so while the MS AntiSpyware program may pick up some things that are picked up by software that does AV only (I mean strictly AV, with no additional spyware checks/removal like some of the newer version do), it doesn't make it an AntiVirus product. -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Claus, Brian Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 9:12 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: MS Antivirus \ Spyware I don't think they intend this to replace commercial AV but as a "hotfix", if you will, against the top virus \ spyware threats out there. We all know how many home users have no AV at all or they think their expired AV that came with their PC is good enough. Then there's the "Spyware, what's that?" question... --Brian -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Mann Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 4:59 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: MS Antivirus \ Spyware I wouldn't see a need to run Spyware apps on my servers, so I had no reason to test it there. I tested on my XP machine, and so did my other techs. It found some things you wouldn't need it to, like VNC, and Dameware NT Utilities as potential threats, but the default action was Ignore . I choose to Always Ignore on those type of apps. Ideally an enterprise console would let you specify what to ignore ahead of time. Sunbelt's CounterSpy Enterprise, which is built on the same technology, has these features. -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Berdt van der Lingen Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 4:56 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: MS Antivirus \ Spyware On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:11:09 -0500, Evan Mann <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've downloaded this, installed it, ran it, and it's pretty impressive. > Lots of functionality. Hopefully MS puts out an enterprise deployment > console for this when it releases. Microsoft's (beta) anti-spyware program detects tapicfg.exe on Windows Server 2003 as CoolWebSearch spyware - impressive! -- regards, Berdt ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor SeamlessPlanet.com Domain Names Register your .com domain name for as low as $7.85 One of the lowest prices on the web! 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