Pop-up box proliferation

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I keep seeing green MS Antisypyware pop-up boxes telling me about newly
secured/allowed BHO's/Toolbars in IE that have long since previously been
allowed; like it's forgotten it had done it already, as none of these are
newly installed.

This is v. 1.0.614. Previous versions remembered. Anyone else?

Also, has anyone seen Counterspy from Sunbelt; it seems to be a clone of MS
Antispyware/Giant. What's the story there?
 
Also, has anyone seen Counterspy from Sunbelt; it seems to be a clone of MS
Antispyware/Giant. What's the story there?
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http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/CounterSpy-FAQ.cfm

Q: What is the relationship between Sunbelt and Microsoft?
A: Sunbelt is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and the two
companies have had a strong and friendly partnership for a number of
years. In December of 2004, Microsoft purchased Giant Company
Software, a company that made antispam and antispyware tools. Giant
Company was previously a close partner of Sunbelt Software. Giant
had granted co-ownership rights to Sunbelt for a previous version of
Giant's anti-spyware product. As part of that agreement, Sunbelt has
the exclusive right to innovate its own product. The new Microsoft
Antispyware beta is based on the Giant Antispyware product.
Microsoft fully owns its anti-spyware product that it acquired from
Giant Company. In turn, Sunbelt fully owns its own anti-spyware
technology, currently marketed as CounterSpy and CounterSpy
Enterprise. Anti-spyware solutions require definition updates
(signatures of known spyware and other unwanted software) that are
necessary to keep the solutions up-to-date. Microsoft will be
providing definition file updates to Sunbelt to its spyware database
until July 2007. During this time, Sunbelt and Microsoft share
exclusively in the ownership of these definition files. Sunbelt is
actively developing new versions of CounterSpy, and adding its own
threat database updates to the product. Sunbelt has its own team of
developers on the enterprise and consumer versions, as well as a
team of researchers finding new spyware threats.

Bob Vanderveen
 
Thank's Bob, that really IS the lowdown.


Anonymous Bob said:
http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/CounterSpy-FAQ.cfm

Q: What is the relationship between Sunbelt and Microsoft?
A: Sunbelt is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and the two
companies have had a strong and friendly partnership for a number of
years. In December of 2004, Microsoft purchased Giant Company
Software, a company that made antispam and antispyware tools. Giant
Company was previously a close partner of Sunbelt Software. Giant
had granted co-ownership rights to Sunbelt for a previous version of
Giant's anti-spyware product. As part of that agreement, Sunbelt has
the exclusive right to innovate its own product. The new Microsoft
Antispyware beta is based on the Giant Antispyware product.
Microsoft fully owns its anti-spyware product that it acquired from
Giant Company. In turn, Sunbelt fully owns its own anti-spyware
technology, currently marketed as CounterSpy and CounterSpy
Enterprise. Anti-spyware solutions require definition updates
(signatures of known spyware and other unwanted software) that are
necessary to keep the solutions up-to-date. Microsoft will be
providing definition file updates to Sunbelt to its spyware database
until July 2007. During this time, Sunbelt and Microsoft share
exclusively in the ownership of these definition files. Sunbelt is
actively developing new versions of CounterSpy, and adding its own
threat database updates to the product. Sunbelt has its own team of
developers on the enterprise and consumer versions, as well as a
team of researchers finding new spyware threats.

Bob Vanderveen
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