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drowd
6 Jan 2005, 4:48pm
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1105022593/1

wow, i cant believe it. but the thing that REALLY gets me, is all the good reviews its gotten. that blows my mind. does anyone here on the forums want to brave the waters and try it out (im scared to even try it for ph34r of the SP2 effect).

key-razy

EDIT://ok, so i broke down, and started installing it, and what is the first thing i see?

"now with spynet technology"

something about that just sounds shady . . .
Aranyic
6 Jan 2005, 6:35pm
I've actually been looking forward to it for a while. Trying it out now.
drowd
6 Jan 2005, 7:16pm
man, i hate to say it. but its good. damn good. oh well, such is life
youvegotjermz
6 Jan 2005, 10:13pm
so is it good...or should i just stick with Ad-Aware?
youvegotjermz
6 Jan 2005, 10:15pm
oops, didn't read drowd's post, what i meant to say was is it better than ad aware?
LiLbRo
7 Jan 2005, 3:50am
ill stick with my ad-aware, thank you very much
yagga
7 Jan 2005, 4:55am
Bill Gates ... tough decision ... uh no, definitely not beta
drowd
7 Jan 2005, 6:24am
it has a better engine than ad aware. ms bought giant AS and thats what it is using. it just goes into so much more detail than adaware or spybot . .
kryyst
7 Jan 2005, 12:41pm
Firefox + thunderbird = no problems.

One thing I'd be curious to see is if M$'s own spyware program removes all the spyware this is built into XP to begin with.
GnomeWizardd
7 Jan 2005, 2:38pm
d00d i use firefox nad all still get spyware once in a while but this MS antispyware is damn good
kryyst
7 Jan 2005, 3:16pm
I'm sure it's good. But the only spyware firefox lets in are cookie trackers at least that's been my experience in the last several months. Those aren't really spyware persay. It's the 'click on me' to close style pop ups that are the real problems. or banners that people don't pay attention to that are the biggest issue.
yagga
8 Jan 2005, 5:57pm
Well I never get spyware, adware, viruses, trojens, spam, or popups, and havn't for over a year, so I don't even want to think about it :p Well actually some of that I never got, like spam, what's the big deal with spam with everybody over at AOL?
LiLbRo
8 Jan 2005, 8:39pm
I broke down and downloaded it...

and it found 1 thing! kinda surprised me, but I was happy to see it found it..

also the GUI of this program is very nice, better than ad aware or spybot..