Is It Worth Installing?

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Nick

I havent downloaded the program at all due to all the
problems that users had experienced with the first Beta
release, since there has been a second Beta release, is
this one more stable and worth installing?
 
Hi

In fact there are only small problems.
Must problems are beacuse of already heavy messed up PCs.

Basic is to have a good working updated antivirus program running
before
install.

I can strongly recommend MSAS but houseclean your PC also with this
tools before install.

CCleaner for temporarily junk removal and registry cleaning,
www.ccleaner.com

and

Lavasofts Adaware
http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022-10399602.html?tag=list

And learn how "Real time protection" works, no need for daily scans
, totally crazy behavior, IMHO, burning drives all over world. ;)

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/howto/realtimeprotect.mspx
 
I'm using MSAS for quite a while on several computers and I'm very happy
with it, no prblems, works fine.
 
Don't confuse the refresh releases of beta1 with the release of beta2. Yes,
there have been several releases since the first beta--4, in fact, by my
recollection--although many will only have seen these as two.

We're still largely running the same code as originally released--with some
useful improvements. Newsgroups, almost by definiton, consist of folks who
are having a problem with the product. Most of these problems are minor.
 
Well Microsoft is encouraging xp user to install
Microsoft Antispyware on there system it must be safe. if
you look at one of this microsoft website its encouraging
you to install it
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/
default.mspx and
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp
sp2/Default.mspx
but does not state that beta can cause problem, you'll
have to look at the main website to find this information
it's note easily visible at all.

But on my experience on using Microsoft Antispyware beta
1 i have no major problem at all but expect bugs and
minor issues.





http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp
sp2/Default.mspx
 
Hi Kevin,
Anything marked 'Beta' comes with warnings and risks.
They don't call us software crash dummies for nothing!

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP
 
Hi Nick,

I personally like MWAS because it offers protection up front, before I have
to go and try to dig the junk out of my machines.
MWAS cleanup has vastly improved since it entered Beta, and I think that can
only get better also.
Price isn't bad either.

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP
 
Might not want to use the word crash and computer in the
same sentence. But very funny!

Alan
 
What is MWAS? Is it Microsoft Windows Anti-Spyware? Lots of people here
refer to it as MSAS. Couldn't you agree on a common way to abbreviate
it? Or is MWAS something else?
 
Hello Silvia,

it is because the 2 keys are verry close!!!!
QWERTY
ASDFGH
;)

Regards >*< TOM >*<
 
Just most people don't want to have their system crash,
that's all.

Although some of us are dummies when it comes to running
beta software and not having anyway of recovering the
data if the system does crash. As for me I don't have a
backup of my system at this time since I already have to
reinstall Windows since some important files that are
used to locate the install locations for MS Office for
Students ended up being removed. Likely happened when I
tried to install Visual Studio .NET Academic when I was
running McAfee's ScritpHawk (it ended up screwing up the
install and the corrective steps lost a lot of things on
my system and I didn't have a viable backup).

Alan
 
You've got a good point, of course. There's potential for data loss with
any crash, and with any beta product. We expect a relatively low risk of
data loss with a publicly issued beta product, but the risk is still
there--particularly with a product which deals with malware which already
raises the spectre of data loss.

I've beta tested a number of versions of Windows since Windows 98--and the
risk is very real--stuff happens--beta related or not.

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