Microsoft's AntiSpyware Tool Removes Internet Explorer

BBSpot ^ | January 19, 2005 | Brian Briggs

[Banjoguy]

It's hard not to believe that some like this would happen. I understand that the antiSpyware software available from MS is flagging Mozilla.

[sharktrager]

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They got you.

[Banjoguy]

Actually, no.

[John Lenin]

If you type in Firefox in a MS search it pulls up everything but the site to download firefox at ...

[Keith in Iowa]

I don't believe this is true.

I installed, and run the M-$oft Anti-Spyware beta, and it did not do as this article states. When I first installed it, I first ran scans with AdAware, and SpyBot - both said my system was clean. M-$oft's Anti-Spyware forund several things not found.

[endthematrix]

LOL!

"Elias Weatherbee, a Microsoft representative...."Tough $h!t," said Weatherbee."

[Keith in Iowa]

Got me too... :)

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

I have AdwareSE, search and destroy and also the MS AntiSpyware and MSspyware finds the LEAST amount of spyware and takes twice as long to run as the other programs. The program much like other MS products is crap

[Banjoguy]

Good for you, Keith.It's a 'gotcha'.

[Terpfen]

IE and Firefox do not show up in AntiSpyware's scanners.

Why do people believe this crap?

[Puckster]

Tit 3:11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

Gates is only protecting his ENORMOUS self-interest in this matter.

[Paleo Conservative]

Users of alternative browsers were happy to see Internet Explorer gone. Thad Freeman of the Mozilla Users Group said, "I've been trying for years to get rid of Internet Explorer. I never imagined that Microsoft would do it for me. I'm ecstatic."

[Terpfen]

Actually, it's Giant's crap. Microsoft only did some touch-up work and GUI design. The core scanner itself is unchanged from the Giant Antispyware program that Microsoft bought.

[Dustbunny]

Microsoft's AntiSpyware Tool Removes Internet Explorer

I have been running MS AntiSpyware since it first became available, it did not remove MS Internet Explorer from our computer.

[Ronin]

Sadly, even if it is a spoof, it's right on the money as far as I am concerned. I installed this anti-spyware thing on my computer at home last week and have been unable to get online since.

Yahoo BB in Japan is stumped. They tried swapping the modem to see if that would solve the problem, but the computer now refuses to even load the BB CD-ROM. Keeps on telling me that it is not supported on English systems, but I am not RUNNING an English system.

I think the only way I am going to solve this is to completely reinstall the system.

[Richard Kimball]

It's a joke. Parody. Humor. We know it didn't really remove Internet Explorer.

[Terpfen]

To me, that sounds like your computer had bigger problems than a spyware infection. The program shouldn't have killed anything.

Have you tried restoring your Winsock file?

[GeronL]

OK, that is too funny.

"It shows how powerful our AntiSpyware program is," said Weatherbee. "Not only is it able to remove spyware from the system, but also the source of most spyware

This person would be fired for saying IE was the source of the spyware. lol

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

It's a joke. Parody. Humor. We know it didn't really remove Internet Explorer.

true, but would you really be suprised if it wasnt a joke?

[Banjoguy]

Hey, lighten up. It's technical satire.