Not all spyware/adware detected

[Victor Buller]

I would like to suggest a place where Beta users can post
spyware that was not detected. If anyone at Microsoft
actually reads this, please consider it. I installed the
Beta last night on my home PC and, within minutes after
the reboot, started seeing pop-ups. I ran another spyware
application to see if the pop-ups were a seperate issue
and just to compare. It found twelve 'suspects'. One of
them was the infamous GAIN. To be fair, only one was
actually spyware; however, that is one too many. I am
willing to pay for a subscription service that works (like
I do for my virus protection). But I would not pay for
something that 'mostly' works.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Here are a couple of comments:

1) Cookie scanning is not enabled in this beta of the product. This
accounts for a good many of the differences in scans from this product and
others such as Lavasoft's Ad-aware Personal SE and Spybot Search & Destroy.

2) If you have spyware in place and it isn't being recognized by Microsoft
AntiSpyware, there is a mechanism in the product to report that: Tools,
Suspected Spyware Report.

Microsoft needs this data--by all means if you've got something resistent or
simply unrecognized in place, especially if it got in after the real-time
Agents were in place, send these reports.

 

[Taz Diaz]

You can go to the Tools menu and choose "Suspected
Spyware" to report it.

 

[Guest]

Will the cookie piece be avaliable for beta, or will this
only be avaliable when the product is released for retail
sales.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I don't have any information about future plans for anything--beta, product,
etc.

 

[Victor Buller]

I have been trying to use the reporting tool (Tools-
Suspected Spyware), but it keeps erroring out.