[MCT]

What do u think of it?

[Martin Zugec]

I really like MSAS... I used Giant before MS bought it and I think it is best antispyware SW on market...

Only one "problem" is it takes pieces of SW as spyware - for example after uninstalling FlashGet it still mark it as spyware, but this is good for variants of spyware.

One thing I am really looking forward to is Microsoft AntiSpyware Enterprise edition

[XtremeMaC]

its real funny when 1 says giant is the best and on the other thread ppl say that giant sucks

[un4given1]

I am pleased...

[SiMoNsAyS]

i've voted the last
i haven't used it but i think is a really good iniciative from m$, for this time...

[^_^]

As long as they don't start charging for it, I'll think it's OK or maybe great even.
It did find stuff Adaware didn't, but then again, the things it found I perceived to be relatively harmless

[theloneiguana]

Personally, I like it. I can't imagine why someone would say Giant sucked, it does so many things.

[XPero]

I voted OK, but I think MS should use those antispyware technologies for Windows core, not for an application.

[^_^]

I agree with that, and possibly make the spy/adware definitions part of windows critical updates

Of course, it should be an optional component for the sake of those who would rather have something different

[phoenix_nf]

I voted OK , will download it later.

[army20]

lol, how can u prononce yourself about it without first trying it ?

[prathapml]

The most sad part for MS....

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Damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

If they made this add-on good, they'd get sued. If they did not, you'd sue them!

[IcemanND]

in my two test it only found items not found by Spybot & Adaware. Some of its features are interesting. I think that M$ best option is to offer a free and pay version like Lavasoft does for Adaware.

[soldier1st]

it's the same thing as giants antispyware just different wording and it doesen't have a subscription on it yet but giants does,it's ok but i wouldn't use it as i use giants antispyware instead,also during my test this and giant picked uo the same and picked up more than ad-aware,i tried it on my laptop n it found 70 adware like kazza n stuff that was uninstalled n gone that ad-ware missed but was picked up by both this and giants antispyware

[indianarchie]

Used it to remove a browser hijack..and it isint bad..but wat i dont like is that M$ is planning to charge for it after the beta period. They should be giving it free especially when it is used to correct systems infected due to loopholes in their own software!

[Jeremy]

I don't get spyware or adware.

[JoeMSFN]

I like the real time scanning or active shield... (I forgot what they call it) component of MSASbeta1.

Pretty cool how it does that automatically. Kinda like antivirus for spyware.
I know Spybot S&D's tea timer does something similar, but I think MS' catches more TYPES of things real time. I said types cuz they all catch something the others miss (and they all miss something).

I just ran it (MSAS) tonight (well last night technically) on a clients PC and of the 20k files it scanned..... over 30% were infested! And almost as many registry entries were hit. Mostly what gain changed its name to, along with something called iMesh. I ran something else and it found 100 more entries (mostly cookies). MS still missed a few things, but pretty much removed it all. Although newdotnet's .dll had to be manually removed from start part of registry to keep windows from whining.

Now if they could comeout with a firewall that'll intelligently handle "generic host services". I have no idea what to say to that when it comes up.

[angadsingh007]

OK... but hope they dont charge for it

[oasisok]

Microsoft's AntiSpyware is okay, but I doubt I'll continue using it.

I use TightVNC on my intranet and MSAS considered TightVNC to be spyware. At least it didn't automatically remove/ban TightVNC, I was worried about that.

I think I'll stick with what I'm more familliar with and had no problems with, and that's AdAware. I've been using AdAware for about ten years now (okay, only a year but it feels like ten) with no problems.

[godan]

i dont really use any antivirus software all i really use or need is ad-aware, but for free this software is decent.