Public beta available of "AntiSpyware" available

[Paul Adams]

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...e/default.mspx

Not really looked in great detail at this product, but it seems to offer full system scans, real-time protection, manual system restore points, investigation of ActiveX plugins, running processes & startup programs and a privacy tool "tracks eraser".

Ran it on my system and it said WinPcap (network packet capturing filter) "might" be something to look at, but as I have Ethereal installed I selected to "ignore always" - it was interesting to see Messenger Plus! remnants even though it's been uninstalled for weeks, though...

Interesting it found 2 further sets of registry entries that SpywareGuard, SpywareBlaster and Spybot all missed too...

[Rcb]

I heard about this, why would anyone install a MS Beta programme???

[Paul Adams]

I heard about this, why would anyone install a MS Beta programme???

Usually to test software and offer feedback for improvements or report bugs so they can be fixed before release?

[weebroonieuk]

lol ask a silly question ....

[directhex]

i heard that it's pretty powerful, though still buggy and very system intensive

might give it a try, and if it can clean up some real messes i've had to deal with recently it's a big win for microsoft in my eyes

[Howard]

Just tried it. Very nice Removed a couple of things from here

[weebroonieuk]

ah fck it im gonna try it too

[myth]

It wont let me download... says I need to register windows! I hate having to call that dam animated computer just to be transferd to a real person who asks me if I ever insatled it on a different PC! But it looks cool.... Edit: And since I instaled new ram mobo cpu gpu and harddrives I dont think they'll activate it....

[LWA]

Installed and running now, will let you know whether it finds anything. Thanks for the link.

Edit: Ran it on my laptop and it found one thing.

[khizman]

why do you need it though, why just not use the old firefox

[Paul Adams]

why do you need it though, why just not use the old firefox

Because spyware does not only come into your machine through a browser.

Using Firefox does not negate the use of spyware removal tools.

[Apex]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01..._anti_spyware/

"Perhaps the new MS Anti-Spyware application is just a stop-gap solution until Longhorn comes out in a few years. But I'm not holding my breath. Instead, let's all follow Microsoft's lead: admit defeat now, and then figure out how to profit from the epidemic you helped create."

[Apex]

It wont let me download... says I need to register windows! I hate having to call that dam animated computer just to be transferd to a real person who asks me if I ever insatled it on a different PC! But it looks cool.... Edit: And since I instaled new ram mobo cpu gpu and harddrives I dont think they'll activate it....

www.filemirrors.com search for the file name simple

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http://www.filemirrors.com/search.sr...e&size=6537888
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http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...areInstall.exe
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for them that don't trust the fm listing a m$ link for you