Microsoft vs. Yahoo Spyware

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Don

Sorry, I don't get it. This MS spyware doesn't find
anything. Yahoo's freeware finds annoying bugs all the
time.

I've run both and MS has always come up empty. Yahoo
always finds cookies at least (as well as a couple of
trojans).

Respectfully,
Don
 
Don said:
I've run both and MS has always come up empty. Yahoo
always finds cookies at least (as well as a couple of
trojans).
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It is well documented that MSAS beta 1 does not bother looking for cookies
and/or data miners.

If your PC has trojans installed which Yahoo finds but MSAS does not, please
post the details.
 
It is well documented that MSAS beta 1 does not bother looking for cookies
and/or data miners.

If your PC has trojans installed which Yahoo finds but MSAS does not, please
post the details.
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Just add to Robin post. If you want that. Get Spybot S&D they do
some of them.

Yahoo-there is or was a debate on some message boards about yahoo
being spyware. The remove all but their own spyware. I think they
track what websites you visit.

Greg Ro
 
Don said:
Sorry, I don't get it. This MS spyware doesn't find
anything. Yahoo's freeware finds annoying bugs all the
time.

I've run both and MS has always come up empty. Yahoo
always finds cookies at least (as well as a couple of
trojans).
Click to expand...


Many of the alerts from Yahoo's anti-spyware product are bogus. When it
alerts, does it actually tell you or provide a database to lookup the
pest, and do they list manual eradication instructions so you can
yourself determine if what they claim is on you host is really there?
Yahoo didn't come up with the anti-spyware function. They use
technology licensed from PestPatrol, and PestPatrol generates false
positives, too. You can use CA's PestPatrol database to lookup the
pests and see the manual removal instructions to check if it really is
on your system. Of the 3 times that I have trialed PestPatrol in the
past, each time it would claim that I had pests which were not there.
With PestPatrol generating false positives, it is no surprise that the
Yahoo anti-spyware based on PestPatrol also generates false positives.

Be warned that Yahoo's install may also include spyware from
Claria/Gain/Gator. See http://www.pcpitstop.com/gator/Yahoo.asp
(Overture specialized in selling advertising links that accompany search
results at Yahoo, MSN, and elsewhere). You may be getting more than you
bargained for when installing Yahoo's software.
 
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