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Is MS Antispyware still working? =?Utf-8?B?UmljaGFyZE0=?= 01-02-2006
Posted by =?Utf-8?B?UmljaGFyZE0=?= on January 2, 2006, 5:07 pm
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Hi all! Since the beginning, I have been an advocate for what was a great
tool. I cleaned up so badly infected users with it. I have auto scan on
(Every day) as well as auto update and I check daily to make sure I have the
latest definitions. And when I sign on, I have this window saying that the
scan didn't find anything. But last week, my computer (WIN 2000 Pro) started
to act funny and I saw some weird processes in the background. I ran Adaware
and bingo! 24 registry keys and over 100 cookies (I don't care much about
cookies). I ran Spybot, and there you go, some more bad stuff. The same thing
is hapenning on my kid's box (Win XP SP2). Has anyone experienced this too?
Thank you all for your input.

Posted by PA Bear on January 2, 2006, 6:07 pm
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Microsoft has established separate newsgroups for the Microsoft Windows
AntiSpyware (MWAS) Beta. Please post your query to:

http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?ICP=spyware&sLCID=us

=> Are you running MWAS v1.0.701 or later, with up-to-date definitions?


=> At this point, no one anti-malware tool will find everything

=> At this point, MWAS doesn't scan for cookies.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org


RichardM wrote:
> Hi all! Since the beginning, I have been an advocate for what was a great
> tool. I cleaned up so badly infected users with it. I have auto scan on
> (Every day) as well as auto update and I check daily to make sure I have
> the latest definitions. And when I sign on, I have this window saying
> that the scan didn't find anything. But last week, my computer (WIN 2000
> Pro) started to act funny and I saw some weird processes in the
> background. I ran Adaware and bingo! 24 registry keys and over 100
> cookies (I don't care much about cookies). I ran Spybot, and there you
> go, some more bad stuff. The same thing is hapenning on my kid's box (Win
> XP SP2). Has anyone experienced this too? Thank you all for your input.


Posted by Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE on January 6, 2006, 10:47 am
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> Hi all! Since the beginning, I have been an advocate for what was a
> great tool. I cleaned up so badly infected users with it. I have auto
> scan on (Every day) as well as auto update and I check daily to make
> sure I have the latest definitions. And when I sign on, I have this
> window saying that the scan didn't find anything. But last week, my
> computer (WIN 2000 Pro) started to act funny and I saw some weird
> processes in the background. I ran Adaware and bingo! 24 registry
> keys and over 100 cookies (I don't care much about cookies). I ran
> Spybot, and there you go, some more bad stuff. The same thing is
> hapenning on my kid's box (Win XP SP2). Has anyone experienced this
> too? Thank you all for your input.

First, MS Anti-Spyware doesn't check cookies.

Second, no anti-spyware program catches everything.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
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