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Story: Microsoft AntiSpyware: Is it worth bothering with?
Posted by: Grant techie (Thursday 27 January 2005, 3:37 PM)
I am a techie, and manage about 500 customers. The reviewer did the scan on a relatively clean machine used by an advanced user. This is is thus an inaccurate review.
What he shoudl have done is load it on a novice users pc. It worked a dream and most importantly continued to run in the background. It also has a great anti hijack facility.
For advanced users don't bother and just keep running ad aware. if you are a novice (like most of my clients) who don't know what to do with ad aware then install it now!!
Great tool for novices but techies and advanced users don't bother
By the way the tracking cookies that lavasoft finds are regenerated within a day and they are watching you again! thus even lavasoft is not very effective!
Full Talkback thread
Story: Microsoft AntiSpyware: Is it worth bothering with?
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Is it worth bothering with? You bet!
I use Ad-Awar... Chris Nixon -
Chris, strange that your anti-virus software... Arthur B. -
Not sure how it got past AV, I think I m... Chris Nixon -
Interestingly Spybot detects "Avenu... Anonymous
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Try runnning it on a PC that's been connected to t... chris
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I am a techie, and manage about 500 customers. Th... Grant techie -
I installed the Beta MS anti spyware on Jan 9... Ashwin
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Well, I've seen this Microsoft AntiSpyware in acti... Arthur B.
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This "review" was so lame i laughed!
it was good i... Myles
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I tried the BETA for about 2 weeks and was unimpre... Anonymous
