Christopher Posted February 13, 2005 Report Share Posted February 13, 2005 If you've never seen it before, learn more here: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/s...re/default.mspxI've been tweaking with this program for a few days now and to be honest, I'm actually impressed. On two seperate machines infected with spy/ad-ware, it has consistantly found things that ad-aware could not. It is somewhat "bloaty", but nothing that I'd really gripe about. Featuring consistant definition updates, a shared ad/spy-ware feature [i.e. if someone else who uses the program gets a new kind of spyware, it detects it and updates everyone else's definitions] and alot more, I'm actually going to keep it on my system.You can download it here. Don't worry firefox/opera/stolen copy of XP/etc users, you can click on "Continue" within that page and skip the genuine Windows validation [and also avoid ActiveX prompts].Anyone else use this? I'd like to hear your impressions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted February 13, 2005 Report Share Posted February 13, 2005 I'm installing this on my father's notebook. It needs it. Heh. Will provide further commentary if there's really anything to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted February 13, 2005 Report Share Posted February 13, 2005 I've been anticipating the release of Microsoft's Antispyware utility since last December. Well, I guess the beta version will have to do for now. I will give it a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted February 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2005 Cool, Ishi.Dex, on your Father's installation, go to Options > Settings and make sure the good stuff is checked [auto updates, etc]. You may also want to click on "General" within this and select Novice User if he's not too keen on this stuff for easier functionality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MZ-NH1 Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 Have just installed it. Looks pretty good. Lots of different features you can enable and disable... Might be a bit too complex for biginner users, but we'll see. Microsoft has put a lot of helpful 'ballon pop ups' in the program to help confused users.I just hope it doesn't take up too many system resources if it has to run in the background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted February 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 Looks like it's no more than 20 megabytes - two components, GIANTAntiSpywareMain.exe + gcasDtServ.exe. Ad-Aware takes about 17. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MZ-NH1 Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 K nice. Does anyone know how to delete the "network host" web site files?I must have about 1million, and I can't delete any of them!?Anyone know how to delete them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredpb Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 WIN98SE not supported. Bummer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlowMo Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 probably, it´s a very good thing, but i just don´t trust them somehow so:anti spyware from THE SPY ??? -isn´t that a bit schizophrenic ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 probably, it´s a very good thing, but i just don´t trust them somehow so:anti spyware from THE SPY ??? -isn´t that a bit schizophrenic ?←It is an oxymoron....Btw, Microsoft is back to its old anticompetitive tricks again:Startpagina Alert.Startpagina.nl is a massive portal site in the Netherlandsand to promote its own site MSN.nl over it, Microsofts Antispywaredeclares any site, which contains 'Startpagina' in its address as a browser hacking site,recommending to use MSN instead.Expect more of these tricks to appear soon in this product.Solution: Don't use Microsoft products.Ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MZ-NH1 Posted March 10, 2005 Report Share Posted March 10, 2005 After installing this program, every time I restarted my computer and signed back in (Windows XP SP2) I would get a pop-up window from anti-spy ware saying would I like it to run in the "try icon background, try icon normal, updating, and one other'.It is extremely annoying! Anyone know how to get rid of this message? Or have the same problem?Atm I have had to uninstall the program Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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