AS&AV programs

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Just for the heck of it I did a count of how may AS/AV programs there are on
the market. I was truly amazed when the number came to a total of 78. That
number includes MSAS. There may even be more because they crop up at a
fantastic rate. You can see a list by going to Ewido and look at the list
they have. Just plain amazing.
Ira
 
This list:

http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm

lists 252 applications which are in the category of suspect, in terms of
their performance.

And this is just antispyware. I think the number of products in your
categories is probably quite a bit higher-- The Virus Bulletin 100% listing
has 37 vendors listed, a number of whom have multiple products--and I know
of products from reputable vendors that aren't listed in that
listing--Microsoft, for example--perhaps because they are still in beta.

The antispyware jungle, in particular is quite a maze--we get pretty regular
posts here from a user of one of the products on Eric Howe's Rogue list,
cited above, asking why they can't get rid of popups, and why their product
finds so many things that Microsoft Antispyware "misses."
 
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