Thanks MS for a good beta

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Gary Labowitz

I've had no trouble with MSAS. I have it starting as a service. Everything
runs fine. A scheduled scan runs every morning at 9:00. I also check with
AdAware and Spybot (they don't find much -- just some adware which I
remove), and clean up before shutdown with X-Cleaner.
I've never had a virus, and all adware is deleted regularly. I don't think
I've ever had a trojan. No problems for years, and I used to use Gator, but
deleted it some years back.
I feel so left out.
Thanks for the product. I look forward to its official release.
 
Hi Gary,
Thanks for a nice report.

FWIW, XCleaner has a fresh release within the past 2 weeks.

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP
 
Gary Labowitz said:
I've had no trouble with MSAS. I have it starting as a service. Everything
runs fine. A scheduled scan runs every morning at 9:00. I also check with
AdAware and Spybot (they don't find much -- just some adware which I
remove), and clean up before shutdown with X-Cleaner.
I've never had a virus, and all adware is deleted regularly. I don't think
I've ever had a trojan. No problems for years, and I used to use Gator,
but
deleted it some years back.
I feel so left out.
Thanks for the product. I look forward to its official release.
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Gary,
I've seen very few minor issues with this myself, and I've used it on a
bunch of workstations. This BETA has downloads that have numbered in the
millions, so considering that the majority not having a problem will never
visit these newsgroups, the number of posts in all of these newsgroups
combined is actually a testament to the solidity of the software. The
majority of the posts here are simply good users that need help getting
tough spyware off their systems. I'm not sure if this has been posted here
or not, but in case it has not, interested folks should read the article at
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,119572,00.asp and pay
particular attention to page 7 of this report. The report rates CounterSpy
as the best overall, but did not rate Microsoft because their product is
still in beta. Considering that CounterSpy is a child of Giant (now
Microsoft) combined with the comments about the Microsoft Antispyware in
this article, users should feel pretty good about using it. This test that
PCWorld ran is fairly current, and if compared to the one run last October
at SpywareWarrior.com, it is fairly consistent. (
http://spywarewarrior.com/asw-features.htm ) They didn't test CounterSpy in
the October test, but they did test Giant and it came out on top then as
well.
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Spider said:
Gary,
I've seen very few minor issues with this myself, and I've used it on a
bunch of workstations. This BETA has downloads that have numbered in the
millions, so considering that the majority not having a problem will never
visit these newsgroups, the number of posts in all of these newsgroups
combined is actually a testament to the solidity of the software. The
majority of the posts here are simply good users that need help getting
tough spyware off their systems. I'm not sure if this has been posted here
or not, but in case it has not, interested folks should read the article at
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,119572,00.asp and pay
particular attention to page 7 of this report. The report rates CounterSpy
as the best overall, but did not rate Microsoft because their product is
still in beta. Considering that CounterSpy is a child of Giant (now
Microsoft) combined with the comments about the Microsoft Antispyware in
this article, users should feel pretty good about using it. This test that
PCWorld ran is fairly current, and if compared to the one run last October
at SpywareWarrior.com, it is fairly consistent. (
http://spywarewarrior.com/asw-features.htm ) They didn't test CounterSpy in
the October test, but they did test Giant and it came out on top then as
well.
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Well, at least they spent their money well. I installed a HP driver update
recently and got proper messages informing me of the change by MSAS. I also
allowed autoupdate to put in the latest signatures and that ran fine.
It's a little more comforting that each morning I come in and see a screen
that says "nothing found" from MSAS.
Gary
 
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