Is Microsoft's new Anti-Spyware program any good?

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Couldn,t agree with you more Kieth. I,ve had nothing but problems with spyware stormer. Just taken it off last night and so far no probs.
I,m using spybot,adaware, and avg with kerio firewall and all seems hunky dory so far.
Got to agree about all the patches and updates Pc,s really are a pain. I,ve got 2 Mac g4's and have never had a problem with them in over 8 years. Unfortunately I have to run a Pc for some apps.

I cant uninstall. Registry entries are locked, etc. It works well until you uninstall.

Actually i had the problem with IE, not working properly. As a matter of fact it was due to a IE spyware/adware/trojan/modifier!! Which has probably been there for months or years !

And I am pleased that MSAS, sorted this!

All what i need to do then was contact my ISP, who guided me through the Winsock Reset Procedure!! And after all was working well.

So stop dissing MSAS before you carry out your research!! NOOBS !

It's ok. I run MS Antispyware and find nothing...or maybe 1 instance. I then run Ad-Aware by lavasoft and find 10. Why didn't MS find them. If Ad-Aware says it's spyware, that's good enough for me. As for MS Antispyware...well, they own enough of the computer industry. I love MS because they do OS's and Office products well. I'll leave the spyware up to Ad-Aware.

lol, I just read Pele's post. It starts out professional and informative. It even gets me thinking positively about MSAS for a moment. Then it turns to sophomoric dissidence…at which point I lose all interest in his opinion.

I have been using MS anti-spyware since its introduction. Previously I was using Spybot S&D and believe it is a great program but MS Beta1 is very user friendly, auto-updates and bottom line, it works!

Ive been using ms antispyware tool & adaware without any problems at all and they both seem to work well together I also us avg anti virus & windows own fire wall & we run a network of 4 computers here and have had very few problems except with the kids machines as they are a bit lax as to what they download sometimes eg games with lots of spyware attached that then dad has the job of sorting out
dunc

Can you install the new MS antispyware beta-1 on top of the beta, or does the beta have to be removed first? Thanks!

You should be able to install on top of it.

I was running ad aware than last Sat got hit with the _p9hEPKqbj.exe and the lavasoft couldn't find it, MS did and cleaned it out. The spybor seems ok but the interface is really oldish. Plus spybot doesn't allow you to not run in the background. unless I'm wrong. The Adaware did however find quite a few things when I first installed it. Personally between Adaware and MS I feel covered.

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