Numerous bugs or what?

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Angie

I installed the product yesterday on my XP Pro laptop.
After installation it ran through the configuration
settings and I chose to disable the real-time scanner,
automatic updates, etc. Upon reboot, I found that not
only was the real-time scanner running but it also enabled
Windowsudpates on my laptop (even though it is disabled
and still shows disabled under the control panel).

Worse yet, I was looking through the program and found
where you could 'fix' IE if it had been hijaaked. I
exited without applying this only to find it changed all
my IE settings without my telling it to do so.

Our computer & network services company certainly won't be
installing this software anytime soon on our business
clients. I do realize it is in BETA, however it should
not totally ignore every setting I set.
 
However, since IT IS a beta, you should not be installing it on a computer
that you need for work. All those problems you noted are definitely
valuable to the beta process - don't punish yourself by figuring all that
out on a production machine. You not be installing this on ANY of your
business clients.
 
Strange, we have installed the program on all 21 computers
in our Computer Club's classroom. We had cleaned all with
Ad-aware first. No problems. None were installed in safe
mode. Same good experience with both of mine at home.
 
Hi Chuck,
What you see here are mainly the burps of what goes on. I've read recently
that over 3 million copies of Beta1 have been downloaded in under a month.
My math tells me that there's a good number of folks not having issues with
the product.

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP
 
I can understand your concern, and I'm glad you won't be installing a beta
program
on business clients machines (although I have!)

Not denigrating the importance of the other observations you've made, I'm
interested in what you've said about WindowsUpdate. As far as I can tell,
there's no connection between Microsoft Antispyware and WindowsUpdate.

Can you describe more what it is that made you state that Windows Update had
been enabled on your laptop?

Others have observed that the product does not honor users settings choices
at all times, and that the UI for the browser hijack settings is at least
confusing, and perhaps flawed.

I'm not certain that the failure to honor settings isn't a product of an
incomplete install--it'd be worth checking by doing a control panel, add or
remove programs, change, update cycle, and re-testing.

I'd also like to urge you to stay tuned--there will be another release of
the beta, and many folks who have used the product on machines with spyware
problems have found that it does an excellent job of cleaning.
 
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