Comments on: Microsoft Offers Free Anti-Spyware to Windows Users

By: Lockergnome's Windows Fanatics

Lockergnome's Windows Fanatics — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:22:04 +0000

Is Microsoft’s Anti-Spyware Really a Bootlegged Windows “Gotcha!”?
Not long ago Aunty reported to you about Microsoft’s new, free anti-spyware. Aunty thought that this wasn’t a bad idea. However, over the course of the past few days, some people have come to believe that the offering is not…

By: dave

dave — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 16:03:42 +0000

Just ran it after running 3 other spyware “cleaners” It fopund many files and many reg keys missed by the others. Looks to be a keeper!!!

By: ronon48

ronon48 — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 23:39:22 +0000

I downloaded on Jan 6 and I liked the Interface, The Advanced Options, the Real Time Protection . . . The BEST part was that it found 8 Items my other Software had not found and 37 Registry entries other Software had not located ! ! ! So far . . . so Good !
later . . .

By: John Burnitt

John Burnitt — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 19:38:54 +0000

I downloaded and ran the program today. It worked great and got rid of a virus, Trojano-803, which I was unable to remove with avast! Antivirus.
A keeper.

By: Jerry Rinebolt

Jerry Rinebolt — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 18:27:12 +0000

I downloaded it yesterday and used it after running the free versions of Spybot and Ad Aware. It caught 9 or 10 pieces of spyware the above programs hadn’t detected.

By: Keniza

Keniza — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:59:29 +0000

I downloaded it a couple hours ago. I caught a couple of pieces of spyware. Overall, it appears to be working pretty well. It has a tendency to want to turn my web experience to an MSN mindset, but so far, nothing appears too fishy (phishy).