Microsoft’s Anti-Spyware Software

Thursday, Jan. 6 2005 | Author: Scrivs

Mad props to Microsoft for fighting the good fight. Damn them for creating a platform that allows spyware to propogate so easily on those unsuspecting grandparents who just wish to view a little bit of porn.

I would give it a testdrive, but I don’t have spyware so I don’t know how I can do it :-) My use this anti-spyware software that is highly recommended to everyone. It’s called Firefox.

Interesting to also note that Windows 98 or ME are not supported. Would’ve thought those have a high danger factor.

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8 Responses for "Microsoft’s Anti-Spyware Software"

Brian Behrend

January 6th, 2005 at 4:10 pm
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I’m pretty sure people still using that POS Windows ME wouldn’t be smart enough to download anti-spyware software anyways, certainly not a beta.

Do people still use 98? I know some people held on for a while, but with the relative stability that 2000 and XP offer you would think most everyone is finally in using a browser from this century.
Jonathan M. Hollin (DarkBlue)

January 6th, 2005 at 4:48 pm
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Better late than never Microsoft.

Hoorah: No threats or infections detected!
evil latte

January 6th, 2005 at 9:37 pm
3

WOW it’s not bad at all…

But a little too late to act upon this now. OH wait this is Microsoft again!
Derek

January 7th, 2005 at 9:28 am
4

This is almost as good as the time they were going to come out with an anti-virus program…

Hey assholes, if you’d just make your stuff not suck in the first place you wouldn’t have to release more programs at an extra cost to fix the stuff that shouldn’t be happening anyway. :(
JC

January 7th, 2005 at 1:00 pm
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Actually, they are coming out with an antivirus program, too. It’s available now I think…. only updates once a month, but it’s free. It’s a precursor to the one they’ll release later this year. (they bought out some european antivirus company last year IIRC)
SamRaz

January 22nd, 2005 at 7:47 pm
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Here is a thought, how about using Opera insted of Firefox. Not that I have anything against it, but I have been using Opera for last one year. I installed Win Xp Sp2 about some months back and I have no problem at all. I installed This Anti spyware from our good friends Microsoft and run it everyday, no spyware detected yet.

I used nLite and customized my Windows installation so that I do not have Internet Explorer at all. So no problems so far
barbara

January 10th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
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I know I’m digitally I’m “prehistoric”, but my desktop runs Windows 98 and I can’t afford a new computer.

Anybody have a suggestion for spyware that’s Windows 98 compatible?
George Fontana II

February 2nd, 2006 at 8:23 pm
8

93!

Get ad-aware se, Spywareblaster, and AVG.
All work on the superior and most excellent windows 98 OS. Download Internet explorer eradicator, which removes all IE files or just the browser. Best to do this after a fresh install. Even with Firefox though, some spyware will sneak through. If you run a spyware program even before you have ever connected to the internet, it will often find spy ware from here or there, but from where?
Windows 98 Lives!
93!