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| What are the risks of spyware in the spyware remover? |
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| Beware of Microsoft bearing gifts. |
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Lol thats a good one :-)
Better ask if there is a light version of it?
In stead of making all these useless never completly working
utilities to bribe peoples mind with they should try writing a descend operating system that doesn't need 200 alarms, bells
and jingles to warn you about what is happening. People should
learn how to operate the system in stead of the system trying to operate the people.
Just give it some tought :
What use is a computer if it spends more time checking for
virusses, spam, spyware, ... then in the end you will own
a supercomputer to do what? Browse the internet, make a spreadsheet? Hilarious
In short :
Humans are semantic errors... |
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| Installed it, found 4 items which were undetected by Ad Aware and Spy Bot. Either it's very good or they were false positives. |
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I noticed the same thing. After running Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta it detected that IrfanView had spyware
"BrilliantDigital"
Infected registry keys/values detected
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.b3d
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.b3d IrfanView.b3d
I have been using Irfanview (currently using 3.95) for years and have run Adaware / Spybot weekly. I let Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta remove the supposed Irfanview spyware and it doesn't appear to have disabled Irfanview at all.
I do believe that the B3d extension is for a plugin that is supplied with Irfanview for Brilliantmedia but am not 100% sure. Regardless I will not stop using Irfanview. I have more faith in Adaware and Spybot and they do not identify Irfanview as spyware.
YMMV |
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| Very Impressive for a Microsoft Product about time Microsoft bucked up there ideas and actually started helping home user protect their pc's |
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Very, very good software!
I am impressed with Microsoft's great offer.
Thank you Bill!
http://www.AfghanistanWeb.com |
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| It is nice software. The process monitoring reminds me of BSD's security policies and Security enhanced Linux and it is also extremely pretty even if it is a blunter object than the BSD and Linux offerings. My problem is that this is a patch to try and fix a broken OS. There have been issues with MS firewall that it can be bypassed by direct access to the hardware using DLLs other than the default MS ones. Allowing this sort of low level access rather defeats a lot of these security products. My irritation is that I may soon be paying for security products from the company that gave me an insecure OS in the first place. |
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| It also prevents my automated sophos updates by asking permision for the re-install. |
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| it sucks because u have to get a genuine operating system |
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| I'll give credit where credit is due. In this case credit is due to Giant Antispyware company, not Microsoft. It is another classic example of Microsoft getting credit for someone else's good software. Don't thank Bill, thank the writers at the Giant company. Microsoft has the advantage of being able to buy everybody else's bright ideas, they certainly don't have the ability to come up with too many bright ideas of their own. The software before before had some pros and cons, pros being it was very effective at detecting wares, as some readers have noted, cons being that fixing these problems more than once caused the XP ICS/ICF service being irreperably damaged. Not good... I don't trust Microsoft beta products, so I will wait until a full version is out before I give it a try. |
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| I can't set the schedule in 24hr time. Everytime I set the schedule for 2200hrs, it reverts to 10am. Can ANYONE help!
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| "FREE-ware" and a "BETA1" hmmm,install at your own risk!! Read the fine print: MS"microsoft are not reliable for any damage cause to your system...." |
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| Similar to comment 12.
How do you set a PM time in the scheduler ?
Help ? |
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