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I just downloaded it and tried it out.
Previously I have been using Spybot Search and Destroy 1.3 which was serving me well. I really liked this new Beta Microsoft product, it's informative and has some very useful tools. If you have a legit version of Windows I recommend you give it a go. Available at the Microsoft website. |
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legit version of Windows
oh, is this that thing that i heard about that they're not giving to people with illegal copies of windows? that's too bad, since it would be more use to the people with legal copies of windows if EVERYBODY was allowed to use it . . .
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misterhaan writes...
that's too bad, since it would be more use to the people with legal copies of windows if EVERYBODY was allowed to use it . . .
Erm, -please explain in what fashion misterhaan? oh, is this that thing that i heard about that they're not giving to people with illegal copies of windows?
Methinks they would not "give it" to users like me either, who have legitimately obtained original factory produced Microsux CDs and their product codes (OEM numbers) and who yet refuse to "register" with the almighty Gatesean Empire. "Excuse me Sir, but your authorisation is not in order. Please come with us."  _B_
Beware the Big Koala. It originated the recursive malapropism when it found itself supernumerary to a specific task and commented, "I think I'm erroneous here". -which it wasn't until it said so, but then it was, -so it wasn't. It also once won a staring contest, with a stuffed cat.
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i just mean that if people have spyware and other such nonsense on their machine, that hurts the internet as a whole. a program that is supposed to remove the nonsense is therefore most beneficial if everyone is allowed to use it.
either way i'm not going to use it--i am my own anti-spyware. in fact, i had to boot to safe mode last week because i made a poor choice about which executable to download and run. interesting lesson learned though: the attrib command is useful for getting a directory listing of files which have attempted to hide themselves! i had some crap that was named elitesij32.exe (i may have misspelled it), and lived in the system32 directory. i browsed there with windows explorer (which, by the way, i have set to show me hidden and system files), and i couldn't see it. so i opened up cmd and checked with "dir elite*" and got one other file that was related, but not the one that was actually running. i deleted that one and checked again--now i have a different elite*.exe file. they continue to cycle as i delete them. i tried "dir /a:h" to view hidden files; no luck there either. suddenly i remember the attrib command, and "attrib elite*" shows me 5 or 6 files. i removed all but one, rebooted in safe mode, and removed the last one (it was running, so i couldn't delete it). how's that for a tangent? at least it's security related 
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Tangent nothing misterhaan.
Security 101. Easy to follow, step by step instructions on how to hunt and destroy a foreign App which has been specifically designed to hide itself. Pertinent and real life example too. I wonder if this latest Windo$e AntiSpyware offering would be as effective? Well highflyer? How good is this new AntiSpyware? if people have spyware and other such nonsense on their machine, that hurts the internet as a whole.
Ah OK misterhaan. You are speaking here as a general principle. TY for clarification. I'm still a little fuzzy about this though. For instance, how is this more undesirable than nonsense on any server? -or is that a seperate thread? Cheers. _B_
Beware the Big Koala. It originated the recursive malapropism when it found itself supernumerary to a specific task and commented, "I think I'm erroneous here". -which it wasn't until it said so, but then it was, -so it wasn't. It also once won a staring contest, with a stuffed cat.
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I wonder if this latest Windo$e AntiSpyware offering would be as effective?
Adaware couldn't get rid of it...but then again i may not have been using adaware correctly -- never done that before! I'm still a little fuzzy about this though.
how about if i explain it like this? 1. there would be less useless internet traffic if more people could avoid/remove spyware, etc. 2. there would (eventually) be less spyware for the rest of us to avoid/remove if more people were able to avoid/remove it. i suppose point #2 may instead just mean that the spyware that's out there would just have to get more intelligent . . . maybe hide itself from the attrib command as well? 
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TY misterhaan. Alles Sehr Klar.
Even I could understand it when yer put it that way. 
there would be less useless internet traffic if more people could avoid/remove spyware, etc.
Good point but then again, to quote one of those cute little sayings at the top of our pages; --- There are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and usenet is nothing like shakespear.
Err, what was that about useless traffic again? -j/k _B_
Beware the Big Koala. It originated the recursive malapropism when it found itself supernumerary to a specific task and commented, "I think I'm erroneous here". -which it wasn't until it said so, but then it was, -so it wasn't. It also once won a staring contest, with a stuffed cat.
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