Boscoe
Thanks for the link.
Excellent program.
Best spyware - trojan program I've seen.

Now if they would come out with a antivirus and registry repair program that's as good as this spyware - adware program beta or not that would be great...

This just replaced Ad-Aware/Spybot Search N Destroy on my "must have" software list.

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stinger, your, "must have" software list should be stickied on the top of this forum, as there still are people who come and ask for things like this. i think it would be helpful to others

Final - What do you mean that it allows you to "cover your tracks"?

hmm do you think he has something to hide?

Its just a shame that when MS should have made this years ago, instead of companies like Lava soft for adaware, and Spybot search and destroy doing all the hardwork. Only after all this time do they finally get off their butts and implement this now!

What they should also do is make 2 versions of IE. One which has just a basic web-browser - with very few security problems, and then the other can have all the fancy trimmings etc etc. Same for windows in general - its fine packing it with all the stuff they do - however, most basic users never even need 80% of the features that it has - so whats the point in having them for them?

Don't get me wrong, I will end up getting this anyway and using it - I just don't like the fact that its taken far too long to do! Don't worry, they will bundle it with Longhorn - at which point Lavasoft and Spybot will sue for unfair anticompetition laws

@Esq, the usuall cookie and soforth cleanup, and about 30 other things as well, including the registry. "Anything" that would hold a trail on the internet, or you computer, as to what you were doing.

ff - Maybe he does. After all, he *does* have a heavy beard .

Final - Bah! People should be cleaning their cookies/cache at least once a day. Still, I guess that it is a good feature for lazy bums (ie. the vast majority of the public) .

Chips - I doubt that MS would be stupid enough to start bundling the anti-spyware program with LH, especially after they were slammed in Europe for bundling "Media Player" with Windows. Still, they might surprise us .

Microsoft-Anti-Spyware-Beta

No frills download
from

Download.com

Enjoy!

Esq - they 'bundle' a firewall as part of SP2.........

Thanks bp, I don't like downloading stuff directly from microsoft, I have bad experiences with their servers crapping out. Same with Dell and Intel.

All it found was one trojan horse, thank god for Mozilla and firewalls.

Thanks bp! I'm going to give it a try, but only because I need to reimage my computer in the next few hours, and I want to test it. I ain't leavin' it on ma machine!

Chips - I doubt that a case could be made against MS for bundling a firewall, mainly because the average user doesn't use one, and those that do rarely trust the MS firewall. Still, you may have a point; people will sue anyone for anything these days, and companies like "Zone Labs" want their piece of the market. By the way, that SP2 firewall is piece of junk!

Oh, and by the way, as I have been typing this I took the liberty of installing the program and running a full system scan. Anyone want to guess how many trojans and pieces of spyware it picked up? That's right; zero! I don't know what you people have been doing with your machines if MS-AS is picking up trojans *shakes head* .

But Esq, now you went and proved MS made a good program. After all, it found no problems with your computer, eh? May as well leave it on.

haha, and to think that my friend says its the best. he's an MS sucker. he claims that the firewall on SP2 says that Zone Alarm contains viruses/spyware. is it possible that MS is making lies about the best firewall out there?