Any sense of how buggy the stuff is?
Working as designed, no doubt. "DOS ain't done til Lotus won't run."
And R.J. Reynolds has just released their stop-smoking kit.
> If you are "unsure" if your version of windows is legit -
> STAY AWAY from loading the active X mod that it will install.
In other words this MS software is itself spyware.
Figures.
How does it do this and where did you hear that it did?
Hence the real reason for this new trojan horse...er, program. Yeah, new program, that's the ticket. The fact that this will finally address the annoying pop-ups and spyware that have plagued IE is only secondary.
URL? I'd like to try it.
It doesn't suprise me that Firefox has a problem w/ a M$ download. Firefox doesn't do MSN or Hotmail or windowsupdates very well either (if at all).
I install AdAware and Spybot as a matter of routine in my clients workstations. I've rarely needed a reboot, and those that I've had are to rescan after removing a piece of carpware, er, spyware. In some cases (badly infected computer) spybot will ask you to reboot, and scan before login.
The program that does require a reboot is McAffee antivirus, so that's what you might be thinking. However, rebooting after updating / installing antivirus isn't exactly an unexpected event.
I'm glad to see M$ is getting serious about this issue. SP2's firewall was a step in the right direction.
Will M$ release weekly updates to the spyware programs, like AdAware and Spybot and the various antivirus programs? If so, how will they handle the legal issues?
geek49203, IT geek
So it's really spyware, not anti-spyware software?
Most beta stuff from Microsoft has just screwed my system up.
You actually found something made by microsoft that works longer than 2 weeks? NO way! Like the joke goes, "What`s the difference between John Kerry and Windows Xp..Windows Xp works once in a while". Everything I have ever used by Windows has been so overloaded with bugs, it makes Michael Moore look like Mr.Clean, and that`s saying a lot about a fat bastard who wears the same black shirt for years on end. Even Microsofts X-box. I bought that thing last year and already it`s bugging out over playing DVD`s. It doesn`t matter how clean, how scratch free the DVD is, they all lock up or skip whenever I play one. And just try to open an X-box to see if it`s dirty inside, impossible. You literally have to smash the thing apart.
Minimum system requirements for Windows AntiSpyware (Beta):
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
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A 300 MHz or faster processor with at least 64 MB of RAM
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Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server™ 2003
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At least 10 MB of available free space on your hard disk
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Internet access with at least a 28.8 Kbps connection to use SpyNet™
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Looks like I'll be sticking to Spybot and Ad-Aware. Neither of them is as bloated or as picky about hardware.
We in the computer industry use things called 'labs' for beta software.
bump for later perusal.
Alternate direct download site and avoid all the Microsoft install stuff.
http://www.softwarepatch.com/security/microsoftantispyware.html
does it have an un-install feature? did you have system restore turned off or on?
bump
I just down loaded and installed. Found lots of stuff spybot missed. I'm happy so far.