Product isn't even out and they are attacking it.
Spybot Search & Destroy
AVG Anti-Virus
BHODemon.
All are free and offer better protection than Microsoft and the other 'big name' products.
The problem isn't with Microsoft, for once. Whatever this thing does, it's doing to the former Giant Anti-Spyware. It took MS less than a month to release their Anti-Spyware beta1 after buying Giant--that's not enough time to change much in the way of code.
Though I will say I'm glad I'm getting a PowerBook soon.
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Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft. That's all I've heard all week. I thought this was Black History Month.
Let me drop out of Lurk & Link mode for a couple of things...
First, crosslinked to here:
Browser Wars, take two
various FR links | 12-22-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1306815/posts?page=1
Second- my personal opinion?
These writers and propagators of garbage code need to be hit so heavily they don't know what whacked them-- triple fines, jail time, and public whipping in the town square.
No, I'm not kidding.
It's not funny anymore-- they are wrecking the web experience for everybody- not to mention the actual damage some of this junk does to data and equipment.
Fine 'em, lock 'em up, and frog march 'em to the town square where they live.
Strip 'em, whip 'em, and chain them to the whipping post for a week with a pair of manicure scissors so they can trim the grass one blade at a time.
Make 'em wear a shirt with "I was a CyberVandal" on it.
I am so deadly serious about this. These vermin are ruining the web for everybody besides them-- it is time to stop it, dead.