Microsoft Antispyware Did Not Work - Get Spybot

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I installed Microsoft Antispyware and ran it on a comuter
with 132 spyware programs active. It report not finding
anything.

I then downloaded Spybot and it found them and removed
them. Then windows XP and IE ran fine.

Come on Microsoft what is going on????
 
droberson said:
I installed Microsoft Antispyware and ran it on a comuter
with 132 spyware programs active. It report not finding
anything.

I then downloaded Spybot and it found them and removed
them. Then windows XP and IE ran fine.

Come on Microsoft what is going on????
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Spyware programs or cookies. MSAS does not check cookies, which are not
programs and are not dangerous.
 
-----Original Message-----


Spyware programs or cookies. MSAS does not check cookies, which are not
programs and are not dangerous.

--

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP
http://www.fjsmjs.com

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No, these were active spyware programs causing IE to
malfunction and Windows XP to malfunction.

I have noticed over the last year that Microsoft
Antispyware has started not removing spyware and not
reporting spyware on computers. I have seen this on
several systems I have worked on. This was the worst
case yet of it failing to do its job. That is why I
posted.
 
these were active spyware programs causing IE to
malfunction and Windows XP to malfunction.

I have noticed over the last year that Microsoft
Antispyware has started not removing spyware and not
reporting spyware on computers. I have seen this on
several systems I have worked on. This was the worst
case yet of it failing to do its job. That is why I
posted.
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Please contribute to the beta process by giving examples (names of malware,
and path and filename of infected file) of the things that Microsoft
AntiSpyware is not detecting.
 
droberson said:
No, these were active spyware programs causing IE to
malfunction and Windows XP to malfunction.

I have noticed over the last year that Microsoft
Antispyware has started not removing spyware and not
reporting spyware on computers. I have seen this on
several systems I have worked on. This was the worst
case yet of it failing to do its job. That is why I
posted.
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Your observation of "not removing and not reporting" has not affected
reviews of the product--see the american magazine Consumer Reports most
recent issue, for example.

There's been some misleading publicity with regard to a couple of
detections--the default advice for the detections has changed to
"ignore"--but the detections are still there, and the user is free to change
this to remove, and the items found will be removed.

I agree with Robin Walker--please help us out--submit a Tools, suspected
spyware report from the machine with the files in place, or at least post a
list here, so that the developers can see what's getting missed.
 
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