Ever wonder whether Microsoft Antispyware was doing any good?

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Bill Sanderson

Here are some stats that may help you make up your mind:

Microsoft Antispyware - Most popular product download in Microsoft history

18,000,000 active users (measured by uptake of signature updates)

Spynet - 20,000 community votes/hour

In the average 90 minutes, 54,000 people install Microsoft Antispyware.
22,500 pieces of spyware or
malicious software are removed.


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Yup--given these numbers, it's a good thing the existence of these groups is
a deep secret!
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Ron Chamberlin said:
Thanks for the numbers Bill. Quite impressive!

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP
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Bill Sanderson said:
Here are some stats that may help you make up your mind:

Microsoft Antispyware - Most popular product download in Microsoft history

18,000,000 active users (measured by uptake of signature updates)

Spynet - 20,000 community votes/hour

In the average 90 minutes, 54,000 people install Microsoft Antispyware.
22,500 pieces of spyware or
malicious software are removed.
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Hmmmm...90 minutes is a strange metric.<g>
36,000 installs/hour
15,000 removals/hour

The amazing thing is that these numbers are in addition to all other
antispyware products.
Now if only we knew the numbers on blocked spyware installs.
Now if only we had beta 2 so we could recommend MSAS to a broader audience.
<bEg>

Bob Vanderveen
 
Anonymous Bob said:
Hmmmm...90 minutes is a strange metric.<g>
36,000 installs/hour
15,000 removals/hour

The amazing thing is that these numbers are in addition to all other
antispyware products.
Now if only we knew the numbers on blocked spyware installs.
Now if only we had beta 2 so we could recommend MSAS to a broader
audience.
<bEg>
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I have wondered whether that metric was intentionally strange so as to make
it easier to find via search engines.

I have the strong impression that beta2 is on its way--everybody seems to be
too busy to communicate....
 
hm, not saying that your info is utter B***ocks, but too many people believe
what they read on the web blindly, references for figures are always a good
thing...

please

M
 
I can assure you that the figures are genuine, and are traceable to a
reliable source, but they are not publicly posted and I can't give you a
public reference for them, I'm afraid.

(and I missed spotting this post for a long time!)

It's possible that some similar figures may be quoted around the time of the
launch of Windows Defender (beta2 of Microsoft Antispyware)--which may
happen soon.

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Anonymous Bob said:
http://spaces.msn.com/adacosta/Pers...&_c=blogpart&partqs=cat=Microsoft+AntiSpyware

Scroll back to 10/10/05. The time stamp is a couple of hours earlier than
your first post to this thread.

Bob Vanderveen
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Hmm - I think Andre got those from me--he is east of me, in terms of time
zones--so maybe that accounts for the timestamps?

The stats came from a presentation in Redmond that I attended as part of an
MVP summit. Some of the presentations were covered by Nondisclosure
Agreements, and others were not--in the case of these stats, two presenters
gave them and one said his presentation was NDA, and the other explicitly
said not. So I sent email asking for confirmation about whether I could
post those stats in the newsgroups, and got that permission.

So--it's all on the up and up, but I can't cite any public source for the
stats. I do suspect that maybe we'll get an updated version at some point,
perhaps around the formal announcements when beta2 is released.
 
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