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| Thread ID: 53118 | 2005-01-07 22:06:00 | Microsoft Antispy | Mike (15) | Press F1 |
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| 311885 | 2005-01-07 22:06:00 | I've downloaded and run Microsoft Antispy, and it seems to work quite well - there's been a lot of talk about false positives, and from my quick checks (following up on the links Antispy gave to the spyware it found) it seemed to be pretty accurate and not false-positives. Anyway, one thing I did notice was that it found a P2P program installed, which I chose to ignore, however when it did its report-back to whoever it talks to (which you can turn off, but I chose to turn on), it reported back the filenames of all the files in my P2P shared folder! Not really an issue when you only download legit stuff, but I still find it a bit sneaky as it didn't tell me it was going to do it. If I had known it was going to do it beforehand I wouldn't have such an issue with it. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 311886 | 2005-01-07 22:10:00 | I suppose it is possible that it was just reporting the files as it didn't know what they were but had found them in the P2P programs folder... Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 311887 | 2005-01-07 22:24:00 | The Microsoft Anti-Spyware program is just Giant AntiSpyware with a Microsoft skin. It is (was?) a good product and as far as my experience, doesn't produce false positives. It will be picking up the remnents of old spyware that has been demolished by another anti-spyware program. As for the reporting back of the p2p files, that is interesting. Another case of some spyware wrapped up in an Anti-Spyware program? Wolf in sheeps clothing. Probably quite innocent, but the possibilities of misuse is scary. |
pheonix (36) | ||
| 311888 | 2005-01-07 22:31:00 | Typical of the arrogance of MS,the sort of people using a program to get rid of software that reports home aren't going to be impressed when the removal program does the same behaviour. At least they didn't enable it by default. My personal opinion is that this MS product should be boycotted, If MS drive the other products out of the game we will all be in a power of trouble once again, And i can only imagine the flaws and bloat and underhanded crap MS will intergrate into this new tool. And thats before the bad guys out there start making software that directly attacks the MS tool, Its only a matter of time. Wouldn't be surprised if people are disasembling the code already. Hell,People are probally reporting security holes in it by now, and the people on the other side of the coin are probally already exploiting them. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 311889 | 2005-01-17 11:24:00 | Good ol MS, Just been reading an article on this app,The one major change MS done to it after purchase from Giant was to.....drumroll please.....Remove its ability to run on Win98. Uh? I shall say that again UH? |
Metla (12) | ||
| 311890 | 2005-01-17 11:40:00 | LOL!!!!11 Just goes to show / prove the tacticts they use - while not dishonest, it's a really mean way to try and make people move up an OS. I honestly do know lots of people that are perfectly happy with Windows 98, and can't afford better. Kinda evil really... |
george12 (7) | ||
| 311891 | 2005-01-17 14:16:00 | LOL!!!!11 Just goes to show / prove the tacticts they use - while not dishonest, it's a really mean way to try and make people move up an OS. Even worse - instead of trying to fix Windows to pre-empt malware, they choose to sell (at the moment it is free) something else to fix the flaws in Windows. I can't undertand why people put up with this sort of behaviour. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 311892 | 2005-01-17 19:29:00 | Good ol MS, Just been reading an article on this app,The one major change MS done to it after purchase from Giant was to.....drumroll please.....Remove its ability to run on Win98. Uh? I shall say that again UH? Won't these people with 98 etc therefore use the other spyware and not be subject the M/S system? |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 311893 | 2005-01-17 20:13:00 | My personal opinion is that this MS product should be boycotted, If MS drive the other products out of the game we will all be in a power of trouble once again, And i can only imagine the flaws and bloat and underhanded crap MS will intergrate into this new tool.That is what concerns me.We all know Microsoft's reputation for squeezing out then killing all the opposition after gaining the lion's share of users for its products. I don't think it is in our best interests to let that happen with this product. | FoxyMX (5) | ||
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