Too Little, Too Late? Microsoft go “spyware advisory”..

Daniel Pass 12 Nov, 2004 at 12:59pm ET Article published in Tech

This is an set of 4 page articles found on the Microsoft.com website.

Articles detailing how to find, analyse and remove spyware?!… From the kings of the vulnerable web brower themselves.. (irony)

What you can do about spyware and other unwanted software?

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Many kinds of unwanted software, including spyware, are designed to be difficult to remove. If you try to uninstall this software like any other program, you might find that the program reappears as soon as you restart your computer. If you’re having trouble uninstalling unwanted software, you may need to download a tool to do the job for you. Several companies offer free and low-cost software that will check your computer for spyware and other unwanted software and help you remove it…

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Lots of others things OTHER sites (including) Short-Media have been advising for over a year…

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Too little, too late. Tackle the weakness (the browser) first please kthx.

Source: Microsoft.com

Comments

13 Nov 2004 ~ 1:24am Camman This news posting.
13 Nov 2004 ~ 1:34am Thrax

I knew I would have use for this one of these days.
13 Nov 2004 ~ 6:11am Shorty

Camman wrote:

This news posting.

Biased?

Potentially it is biased because the newsposter feels that it is too little, too late.

Welcome to the world of newsposting. it is always biased towards one side or the other
14 Nov 2004 ~ 7:12pm FAH_WW Worst thing is that some of those spyware holes cannot be fixed as every time you reboot M$ puts it back in again. Yeah that's with SP2 installed

On top of that put the lack of willing to fix anything pre-XP-pre-SP2 and you've got yourself the bugridden W2K laptop I've got to use for my job.

Biased or not - it sux