You will want to abandon your Spybot and AdAware...

Ratty Sr.

Ratty Sr.

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...because Microsoft AntiSpyware beta rocks! It's so much better than those two applications. It has a ton of new features and will rid your system of spyware before you can say "Ballmer"! It's also plainly obvious that this program is a much more sophisticated and professional piece of software than its freeware counterparts - for instance, it has much higher hardware requirements. Microsoft AntiSpyware requires minimum Athlon 64 3600+ to run and many gigabytes of diskspace. Getting it to run may be tricky; namely, on start-up the program always reports that the beta has expired on 31.7.2005 - even when your system clock is set perfectly - and then immediately shuts down. Even though you may foolishly wind up thinking the application isn't working and eventually forget it, don't worry - it won't forget you...

Namely, you will soon notice your computer is acting a bit weird - it will become unusually slow and sluggish, and you might eventually get "out of disc space" error messages. Fear not, for that is merely a sign that Microsoft AntiSpyware is diligently doing its job - namely, the program starts a process called gcasDtServ.exe that takes up to 70% of your CPU time. It also constantly fills the file errors.log with message "91::ln 0:Object variable or With block variable not set::gcasDtServ:modThreatData:Initialize::" (I don't know what it means, but I suspect it has to do with AntiSpyware pwning all the spyware), so after a few hours the file becomes larger than 1 gigabyte...


What's left to say other than: Microsoft does it again!

I can't help but notice that using a system that is heavily infected by spyware is a lot more comfortable than using a system with Microsoft AntiSpyware installed...
 
Microsoft will only ever make something that doesn't suck when they make a vacuum cleaner.
 
Ashmo said:
Or you could use Firefox for browsing porn.
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I'm going with Ashmo on this. Whoever hasn't abandoned IE yet needs to be re-educated with a spork. Plus, with the Adblock addon... This thing kicks ass. - Colt
 
Ratty said:
...because Microsoft AntiSpyware beta rocks! It's so much better than those two applications. It has a ton of new features and will rid your system of spyware before you can say "Ballmer"! It's also plainly obvious that this program is a much more sophisticated and professional piece of software than its freeware counterparts - for instance, it has much higher hardware requirements. Microsoft AntiSpyware requires minimum Athlon 64 3600+ to run and many gigabytes of diskspace. Getting it to run may be tricky; namely, on start-up the program always reports that the beta has expired on 31.7.2005 - even when your system clock is set perfectly - and then immediately shuts down. Even though you may foolishly wind up thinking the application isn't working and eventually forget it, don't worry - it won't forget you...

Namely, you will soon notice your computer is acting a bit weird - it will become unusually slow and sluggish, and you might eventually get "out of disc space" error messages. Fear not, for that is merely a sign that Microsoft AntiSpyware is diligently doing its job - namely, the program starts a process called gcasDtServ.exe that takes up to 70% of your CPU time. It also constantly fills the file errors.log with message "91::ln 0:Object variable or With block variable not set::gcasDtServ:modThreatData:Initialize::" (I don't know what it means, but I suspect it has to do with AntiSpyware pwning all the spyware), so after a few hours the file becomes larger than 1 gigabyte...


What's left to say other than: Microsoft does it again!

I can't help but notice that using a system that is heavily infected by spyware is a lot more comfortable than using a system with Microsoft AntiSpyware installed...
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You know what's really humorous? Microsoft didn't even create the program, it's an exact copy of the spyware-tool of the company they recently bought.
 
I won`t give up on Spybot for sure, even as a backup, but the Spyware thing from Microsoft actually works fine on my comp. It`s a bit heavy, although i don`t get those 60% numbers Ratty is talking about, and i`m still testing how it`s prevenction works, but the scanning is actually better than the programs i have been using, it goes much deeper in the registry, for instance, than the others.

It`s not bad, although many are complaining that it is less stable than the original Giant spyware from wich it was built, but it`s not bad for a Microsoft product, at least so far.

Messenger 7.0 beta is actually beeter than the previous versions too, although it also gives a few error messages.

My complaints go to the MS anti-virus, wich is going out soon, and will have to be paid. I mean they leave holes to be exploited everywhere in the OS, than charge for a tool to fix the problems that come from those security holes? That`s racketering as far as i see it.
 
You could have revealed the sarcasm earlier, Ratty. I was downloading the program, when I read the rest of your post, rapidly making me abort the installation. Funny thing is, you have to download spyware from the Microsoft site to be able to run the program.
 
Jabbapop said:
i've been surfing porn all my life and have yet to get spyware!
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If you don't think you are infected, you are already terminal. Go get Spybot. Now.

-runs off to run Spybot on his own system, just to be thorough-
 
Sander said:
You know what's really humorous? Microsoft didn't even create the program, it's an exact copy of the spyware-tool of the company they recently bought.
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Somehow I suspect that even if they copied it exactly they still managed to add 90% bloat and make it a lot more prone to fatal errors.

I also suspect that it's capable of crashing Explorer, like most Windows-integrated applications are.
 
Ashmo said:
Somehow I suspect that even if they copied it exactly they still managed to add 90% bloat and make it a lot more prone to fatal errors.
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I can just imagine what happened - they probably tried to compile the source with Visual C++, got a million error messages (fgets(string, 1, stdin)? nope, Microsoft has only heard of non-standard gets(string) crap. And that's just one of hundreds of examples.), started "fixing" the code and ended up introducing a heap of loopholes and memory leaks. AntiSpyware will probably evolve into a reliable spyware remover around the time Internet Explorer becomes a perfectly safe internet browser.
 
Ratty said:
AntiSpyware will probably evolve into a reliable spyware remover around the time Internet Explorer becomes a perfectly safe internet browser.
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Enough with the foreplay, I want your child!
 
And yet another lesson is: use Linux, Firefox and other such things.
Hell, use MacOS X if you prefer. It beats Windows.
 
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