MS Tackle Spyware!

[adolescent]

cecilia wrote:
OPera doesn't have spyware or adware. it has banner ads, that's all. i barely notice tham and because i don't use IE i have better protection. and i've never had a problem.

Wrong.

Opera is adware

http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?index=453

[Wolfe]

@LinchpiN

Great, you can get an M$ program to RID Winblows of all that M$ Spyware !   :-?

Isn't that like the UN investigating itself on Oil for Food ?   :lol:

[yogisumo]

adolescent wrote:
Funny, I've run IE for years and never had spyware either.  Although, I don't install programs like eDonkey, Opera, etc. that have spyware and/or adware built in.  Saying that Microsoft does nothing about holes in IE is wrong.  Microsoft regularly releases patches for discovered vulnerabilities, as do other browser authors like Mozilla, etc.

Have you checked to make sure you don't have spyware?  It doesn't always announce itself...  I know that this stuff will auto install itself.  "Microsoft security"... isn't that an oxymoron?

[Housey]

Well I noticed a popup box when going to msn.com telling me that adaware had been found on my system and I should consider removing it and installing M$'s free solution.

Is that not spyware?

Personally I use a combination of adaware and Spybot but I think spybot is the best.

[mikrucio]

believe it from me who works with this {bleep}E everyday.

spyware IS microsofts problem. and this new program is {bleep}E.

dont use it. they didnt make it anyway, they bought it from someone else who started it.

microsoft dont know their ass hole from their mouth hole.

end of story.

AMIGA OS is the best in the world and anyone who disagrees is a moron..

GREETINGS..

[Hyperspeed]

Whilst I agree that they are trying their best to correct the problem,
the situation is pretty much like it is in Iraq.

People will always have the urge to attack Microsoft because they are
a big monopoly, crushing diversity and opinion in their path.

People start using Linux and then Microsoft goes on about how Linux
infringes patents and starts threatening them.

I don't like to see anyone ganged up on, but I suspect Microsoft have
had their fair share of government tax cuts and slack cut for them.
Just as I suspect the Japanese government has for it's big player
Sony.

[mikeymike]

adolescent wrote:

mikeymike wrote:
Sort the problem, don't treat the symptom.

It's one thing for other companies to design spyware software, but MS should be fixing the holes instead, not trying to come up with a subscription service to profit from the holes.

They are fixing the holes.  Did you not see the dozen or so patches that came last year?

The only one I can think of that reduced the possibility of spyware was the changes to the prompts in IE about running/installing stuff.

[Linchpin]

I didnt notice the patches... untill i formatted the other day and had to reinstall them all.

Thank god for Broadband. I feel really sorry for Dialup subscribers (especially ones on a pay as you go service!)

[Minion]

mikrucio wrote:
believe it from me who works with this {bleep}E everyday.

spyware IS microsofts problem. and this new program is {bleep}E.

dont use it. they didnt make it anyway, they bought it from someone else who started it.

microsoft dont know their ass hole from their mouth hole.

end of story.

AMIGA OS is the best in the world and anyone who disagrees is a moron..

GREETINGS..

Well done.  Have you declared a war against the bloatware producing "infidels"
Are you planning on strapping explosives against yourself and detonating them in the nearest microsoft funded building?
You sir are a true fundamentalist and quite clearly a moron yourself.
:-|

[FastRobPlus]

mikrucio wrote:
believe it from me who works with this {bleep}E everyday.

spyware IS microsofts problem. and this new program is {bleep}E.

dont use it. they didnt make it anyway, they bought it from someone else who started it.

microsoft dont know their ass hole from their mouth hole.

end of story.

AMIGA OS is the best in the world and anyone who disagrees is a moron..

GREETINGS..

Once again, ESL rears its ugly head.

[amigamad]

Not sure why they are bothering there are plenty of free tools to remove spyware That work fully without crashing .

[zipper]

DonnyEMU wrote:
I will stick with Ad-aware and spybot for my usage..

Giant AntiSpyware could find twice as much spyware in a recent test in the MikroBitti mag (Finland).

[Effy]

I stick with AdAware 6.0 Pro, real time scanning of everything that comes in. It does put a little load on the processor but that´s what pc´s are made for  :lol:  Can´t remember when I had an item found by AdAware ... and for surfing I use Opera V7.54 with the option ´block unwanted pop-ups´ activated in the tools menu ...  :-)

[HopperJF]

AFT.  :pissed:

But even so it seems they can release any heap of crap and watch it sell to the masses.

[DonnyEMU]

Giant is the company that Microsoft bought and their new program IS from Giant..

[FastRobPlus]

HopperJF wrote:
AFT.  :pissed:

But even so it seems they can release any heap of crap and watch it sell to the masses.

You mean, like MS BOB?  The MS cordless phone? Someone's in the Kitchen? Freestyle Pro? WinG? IE Channels? Image Composer?  I wasn’t aware the masses were beating doors down to find these!  :-?

Or were you perhaps thinking of DirectX (which beat Glide and OpenGL) and Word (beat WordStar and WordPerfect) and Excel (Beat Quattro and VisiCalc.)  and PowerPoint (beat endless sea of crappy apps)?  

Seems to me, those titles all won on their own merits…