SpyBot 4.2Mb
AdAware 2.6Mb
MS AntiSpyware 6.2Mb
Bloat anyone?
Guy 'n gals, please remember that this is BETA (in test) software !!!
Suggest you checkout the comments at
http://communities.microsoft.com/new...yware&sLCID=us before you test this sucker for BillG.
"I found this Antispyware Beta program yesterday and
downloadad to my laptop, ran the program through its
recomendations, and after carefuly reading all the
instructions I figured this is a Microsoft program, how
could this harm my computer. Well after the scan, it
found about 43 items, most for deletion, a couple for
quarintine. So I went through the steps then rebooted, I
lost my task bar at the bottom, had a fatal system error
101, and it commanded shut down by NT Authority\system, a
box pops up for a one minute countdown then restarts,
over and over. I have tried to start in safe mode, same
issue. I contacted Microsoft support, waiting for a reply
now. Can ANYBODY help me with this problem? - O'Neill"
".....Example freind had the vx2 plugin for adaware se and now
the antispy says she has the vx2 bug. She had 19 false
positives. You guys want to crash and burn your system by
deleting go ahead. This is a beta version which means its
in trial..... I think it has good promise though once
they work out the bugs... steve"
Why should I pay for something (and you WILL have to pay once it gets out of beta) that Micro$haft should include anyway in it's very expensive OS?