Microsoft AntiSpyware Finds Nothing !

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I have been using the Microsoft Beta Version AntiSpyware for a couple of
months now and I have yet seen the program find anything!!!!! Whether it is
running automatically in the background or when I force a scan it does not
protect my pc. Frankly, the free copy of Ad-Aware and Spybot plus a purchase
product I acquired, XoftSpy find things but even then these products never
find everything they each seem to find different spyware items so I run all
of them each day. I now find no reason to continue to use the Microsoft
Spyware program and will be deleting it.
 
DealerEd said:
I have been using the Microsoft Beta Version AntiSpyware for a couple of
months now and I have yet seen the program find anything!!!!! Whether it
is
running automatically in the background or when I force a scan it does not
protect my pc. Frankly, the free copy of Ad-Aware and Spybot plus a
purchase
product I acquired, XoftSpy find things but even then these products never
find everything they each seem to find different spyware items so I run
all
of them each day. I now find no reason to continue to use the Microsoft
Spyware program and will be deleting it.
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You haven't a clue what are cookies, do you?
 
Stu said:
Or MRUs for that matter?
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Forgot about that other non-malware fluff. I have Ad-Aware configured to
ignore negligible objects (i.e., MRUs). From what I've seen of users
worrying about MRUs, they're more worried about mom and dad or their
employer finding out where they've been than of some malware scanning the
registry to report those values. The "privacy issue" really isn't in regard
to malware sending it out but someone getting on that host and finding out
where the user has been surfing or what files they've been opening (which
means the computer or the resources used weren't their property; otherwise,
they wouldn't care unless committing illegal acts). Since I use
whitelisting control of wanted cookies (so all non-whitelisted cookies get
purged on exit from IE), I never see that trivial fluff reported, either.
Of so many users bitching about MSAS/Defender not finding "something", they
usually omit (and almost deliberately so) that the so-called pests are just
cookies and, as you noted, MRUs.
 
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