Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)
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Well after several months, Microsoft has finally come up with a beta version of the antispyware product aptly named Microsoft AntiSpyware. They purchased a very small security company (also aptly named, I might add) Giant Software Company. GSC for short, has long since had an enterprise version of an anti-spyware product on the market and that is what brought Microsoft to their front door.
I downloaded the beta version of the product and installed it. I then ran Spybot, with updated definitions and immunized the system again. I also updated my Spywareblaster and Ad Aware (although I did not run ad-aware) prior to the Microsoft AntiSpyware scan. After Spybot declared my system clean from spyware, I ran the Microsoft product and this is the information that followed my running of it:
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One of the nice things about this (vs. Spybot and Ad-Aware specifically) is that it allows me the option of creating a restore point (in Windows XP/ME only) and then also tells me about the product/spyware in question by simply clicking on it, instead of having to go to another tab and searching for it.
Caution to all who may want to use this software in the background, when you clean your computer, it will ask you if you want to close IE now? If you click yes, you are actually allowing it to close the program for you -- so make sure you are done with reading my blog first :).
