MS's Spyware program missed a lot

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I DL'd and ran Microsoft's spyware program and I must say
that I am VERY dissapointed.

It did find 7 threats and deleted them but it missed
others. I immediately ran Spybot v 1.3 and found 13 more
serious ones that MS's program did not find.

It may be best to run MS's program IN ADDITION to Spybot
and AD-Aware.

Oh, by the way, I'm running XP Home and have Norton System
Works and Norton Internet Security and encountered no
problems with Norton after running MS's program.
 
Before jumping to conclusions you need to be sure of a couple things:

A: It's early on and it may not find everything.

B. Those extra detections you found with Spybot may have been DSO exploits
and/or cookies. The DSO exploit is a false positive on the part of Spybot
and MSAS does not scan cookies.
 
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