MAS Extremely useful and welcome.

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I have been running Microsoft's Antispyware program since
day one and have found it extremely useful in blocking
unwanted b.s. from downloading or installing on my
system. I must admit some of the problems others are
having are frightening and wonder if MAS is the cause or
if they may have some serious underlying problems that
even MAS can't solve.

One thing to note is that MAS Beta does have an
expiration of 7/31/2005. Was wondering if MS has been
keeping vigilant on ensuring we beta user's are not left
out in the cold so to speak come August 1.
 
I don't have any doubt about the expiration date issue--something concrete
will be known and released well in advance of such a date.

Newsgroups attract mainly the people who are having a problem that needs
solving. The significant problems that I see here are mainly caused by
issues related to removing spyware--and we all wish that job could be done
better. There are several sets of issues here which I think will be
improved upon during the beta--specifically the installation type issues,
and the loss of Internet connectivity without warning after a reboot in the
course of spyware removal. Some of the others I'm less clear on the precise
causes of, and thus whether they'll be effectively worked around over time.
 
The only anomaly was that I wiped out all the Kazzaa files on my daughters m/c, which to
me was a feature, not a bug:-).
Other than that (which was my "fault") I had/have a "Scroll Problem" (General ng. Jan 20)
which I haven't seen anywhere else, including the FAQ, so I assume that I'm the only one
(albeit it occurs on both my w2kPro and XP m/c's).

From my point of view it's working great.
 
Sometimes I find Outlook Express annoying in the extreme. I can find the
post you mention using the Find, Message feature, and read it. However,
what I'd really like to do is to mark it unread so that I can remember to
recheck this issue with the next beta build, to see whether they've caught
it or not. And I can't find that message in "find, message in this folder"
at all. Even if I search on strings I know exist in the message, because I
am looking at them!

Wiping out the Kazaa music files is not the experience Microsoft wants users
of the program to have, I believe, so minimally I hope there will be some
much clearer wording about how this works.

I did find your message about the scroll problem, and I can confirm that the
behavior is the same on my machine--I haven't trained myself to use the
scroll wheel, probably because in some other programs I use its default
behavior is annoying--rather than scrolling it ramps the display size up and
down, which is not what I want at all.

So--re-test when another beta build is released, and feel free to ping me in
some fashion if this one isn't fixed. What usually happens to me is I have
in mind some little tweak, and test, and it isn't fixed, and then they
announce that the bar for fixes has been set higher, and they really only
want to hear about data loss showstoppers, which I seldom find--but they do
read the feedback here, and it wouldn't surprise me if they'd also found
that one in-house.
 
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