Microsoft AntiSpyware

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Sun May 01, 2005 8:30 pm

So Whats the verdict? Is it safe, worth installing? Anyone installed it? I read This and it looks promising. Link for download is at the bottom of the page.

Last thread on this was back in January so I started a new one.

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Sun May 01, 2005 9:40 pm

M$ bought Giant late '04. Their antispyware program is very good, so M$ converted it into their portfolio w/in a month or two

And yes, I happyly use it along w/ Spybot S&D plus Spywareblaster (and a virus scanner of course) on all my machines.

Unix · Post by **Unix** » Sun May 01, 2005 10:09 pm

Ditto. Works well for me and often finds stuff the others miss.

I mean, who better than to troll microsoft code for virii than microsoft?

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Sun May 01, 2005 10:40 pm

Unix wrote:I mean, who better than to troll microsoft code for virii than microsoft?

and what better software, made converted by MS to hide shiznit even deeper!

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Mon May 02, 2005 7:38 am

Thanks guys ... installing ...

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Mon May 02, 2005 10:18 am

I believe the MS anti-spyware is a run-once application.

just FYI.

[edit] doh! I was thinking of something else. Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - April 2005 (KB890830)

LunchBox · Post by **LunchBox** » Mon May 02, 2005 6:07 pm

It installs and everything.. It just runs out after a while.. I can't remember the day.. I have used it and I really like it

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Tue May 03, 2005 8:26 am

I use Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware, and Spyware Blaster. When I installed M$ Anti-Spyware it found no intrusions that the others didn't find. One thing that really bugs me about it is that out-of-the-box it screws up batch files (of which I heavily use). It prompts for protection when you run it but if you allow it to run, it screws up the working directory of the batch file (changes it from the batch file directory to C:\Windows\system32). I use so many batch files that are sensitive to the working directory that I cannot tolerate this. I can turn the feature off but hey, the program isn't finding any intrusions that are not already handled so ...

Uninstalling ...

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Tue May 03, 2005 12:02 pm

Since I started using Firefox, Ad-Aware and Spybot have picked up one instance of spyware between them; I doubt that Microsoft's product will find anything either.