Doesnt quite get everything

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Ben Fielding

I have been having trouble with a spyware ridden machine
and ran MS's Spyware about four times. I was stilling
getting lots of weird things happeneing so I ran Adaware
and got loads that Spyware missed. I do like the software
but if its going to get past Beta, it has to work and get
everything!!!
 
No antispyware program currently gets everything. So far I have found
that microsofts antispyware has found more items than adaware. Although
adaware is a close second.
 
Try running a second scan in Windows Safe mode. I did that
and it removed more after the first original scan.
However, even after that, Ad-Aware found more. So I have
to agree with you on that. Even in beta it is a good
product, especially the realtime protection.
 
Interesting.... My ad-aware seems to catch 500% more than
this product. In the past two weeks, MS caught ZERO
malware programs, ad-aware caught hundreds.

Hope MS doesn't try to sell this product. Give it back to
Giant, at least they had it working.
 
Take a closer look at what is being caught.

If ad-aware is catching hundreds of programs on your machine you are in big
trouble!

I suspect it is catching cookies, which are really not nearly as significant
as executables, and which Microsoft Antispyware, in this build, is not
scanning for at all.
 
Hi Dennis,
In the Beta1 version, the program doesn't go into the cookie jar, nor does
it chase data miner objects.
Chances are the cookies and miners are the differences many see between it
and AdAware (also a good program IMVHO)

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP
 
My experience is that both spybot version 1.3 and ad-
aware se catch more tham MS antispyware so far, but most
of the time it is data miners in cookies (but not always.
The program interface is nice but I also have had trouble
with the auto updater saying I am up to date but I am not
really up to date. Manually updating usually fixes the
update issue. Any idea why the autoupdater says I am up
to date, when I am 2 releases behind?

John H
 
There's a known bug with Help, about, showing an incorrect (old) version
number.

On the machines I've seen with this issue, going to File, Check for updates
results in a check with no apparent update (i.e. you see two stars and no
update dialogs), and subsequently Help, about shows the right number.

That may explain what you are seeing. Microsoft is aware of this bug.
 
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