At 09:00 22/10/2005, you wrote:
Excellent point for thought. I run Counterspy,
the "commercial" version, as it were, of the MS
"beta". I have found it to be more thorough and
feel more secure than with the MS product
itself, for which there does indeed seem to be
some evidence that it has been watered down a
bit in response to arguments from spyware/adware
vendors. Certainly the MS product at one point
(and maybe still) ceased to detect Claria,
formerly known as "Gator". Having been Gatored
in the past, and having wasted much of a day
unGatoring the machine, an antispyware
application that doesn't detect it would be useless for me.
Doesn't M$ own Gator? If it does, then it's not going to delete it now is it?
I personally wouldn't trust M$ to keep my system
clean, I'd actually not ever trust just one piece
of anti-spyware to keep it clean. I use
Ad-Aware, SpywareBlaster and SpyBot S&D, so far
they seem to be doing their job. Not noticed any
evidence of anything getting past them.
Just my tuppence worth
Le Dùrachd
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Andy Cafferty
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