m00n Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 Just downloaded/installed the new microsoft spyware beta app. Not bad. Picked up a lot of stuff that ad-aware misses. http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Garrison Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 Doesn't work with Windows 98 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dzapper Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 Or ME. Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 guess it is time to move up to Win 2000 Ray! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m00n Posted February 3, 2005 Author Share Posted February 3, 2005 ---------------- On 2/3/2005 11:44:59 PM Ray Garrison wrote: Doesn't work with Windows 98 ---------------- Upgrade to Windows XP Home Edition. Great OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Shmoe Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 Thanks for the update mOOn, although just having hernia surgery, it was quite a PITA trying to get my product code off the tower lol. Anyway... thanks again, I ran it & it worked great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 Microsoft wants the user to input the product code on something they are GIVING AWAY??? Go figure. They are such 500lb gorillas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 "Bill" doesn't want you to use those old apps (98, ME, 95, BOB,2000) for home use. He want's you to use XP. That's why XP has Hyperthreading, etc. and every driver known to man within the application. He doesn't want you to use 2000 for video and that's why it does not support Hyperthreading. He is slowly closing the software apps to make them compatible for one OS and that would be XP. Win2K is for servers and is designed for that. He is now mad at Symantec (Norton) so you will see anti virus and a lot of firewall stuff for free in the future. JJK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m00n Posted February 4, 2005 Author Share Posted February 4, 2005 I don't blame Microsoft for wanting to close the gap on their OSs. Think about how much it must cost them to support all the flavors of Windows that exist. I'm a software engineer and I can tell you trying to maintain backward compatibility is a lot of work. Oh and for now, i'd not get rid of your previous scanner. I found that there are some things this new scanner from Microsoft is not picking up.... But, it's still beta anyway. I'm sure that it will be more complete once it's done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Favog Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 Well, I tried. It won't work on 98SE either... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSport Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 m00n: Thanks...just added this to the security! Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMcGoo Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 I have use the new Microsoft anti-spyware package for a week. I also use Spybot Search and Destroy v1.3 and AdAware. The Microsoft package found 1 spybot that the other packages missed. So far, the new MS package has been painless, but not a major improvement. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruinsrme Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 Quote "Microsoft wants the user to input the product code on something they are GIVING AWAY??? Go figure. They are such 500lb gorillas. " Yahoo, Google, lavasoft and other giving similar software away have also asked for feddback regarding the GUI and functionality. Does that make them 5 pound chimps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Shmoe Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Anyone catch the news this morning on this spyware? I only caught the end... something about a virus being linked to this program? YIKES! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooting_monkey Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 You gotta remember that just because a spyware remover doesn't get rid of a piece of spyware doesn't mean it didn't detect it. It may be a piece of software that a program will not work without, and therefor the spyware remover didn't remove it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeV Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Remember the MS spyware program is in Beta release right now. MS will release the final version only to paying customers (i.e. it will not be an OS upgrade that is free to download). Thus, the beat version will be useless soon without new DAT files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirk Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Since we're talking about spyware/adware removers, I have a question. I usually scan my system with either Spybot or Ad-aware, then use the removal function to delete the spyware/adware programs or files it detects. If I then run Spybot or Ad-aware immediately again, it frequently detects (again) the files that I have supposedly just deleted. What's going on here? Are these removal programs working or not?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMcGoo Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 The second program may be detecting the quarentined spyware that the prior program removed. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeV Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 I agree with Bill, you need to empty your Quarantine folder. Otherwise, the files will remain on your hard drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbert Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Spybot is the best anti spyware software available, it's free, and it won't trash your registry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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