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Microsoft Anti-Spyware: What a joke.

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mobrien_12:
Well, we all know that MicroSoft bought an anti-spyware company to release it's own MicroSoft anti-spyware, and has been releasing free betas to users of it's operating system.  

Well, MicroSoft has been negotiating to buy Claria.  Claria is the company that used to be known as Gator.  They changed their name, probably because their reputation was so bad for creating spyware.  Of course, Claria/Gator/Scumbags argue that their software isn't spyware and sue people who say it is so I should probably call it SCUMWARE (bite me Claria).  From my direct observations in cleaning out spyware infected computers, their software slows Windows computers down so much that they become almost unusable.  

Nobody is really sure why MS wants this little POS company.

However, MS has apparently now downgraded all of Clarias threat designations in their Anti-Spyware program.  According to the e-Week Story:  

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...four different builds of the Windows AntiSpyware beta detected the Claria products, but the default recommendation was "ignore."
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What a joke.

Lead Head:
i tried that once and it didn't have advance scanning options or stuff like Ad-Aware has, and i deleted it, buy personally i do not want something from microsoft SCANNING my PC

Orethrius:
Hey Muzzy, care to explain how this is in step with their "altruistic endeavours" that surely don't affect the end-user?

piratePenguin:
See, MS are in NO WAY interested in making a 'good' OS.
No fucking wonder. You'd think, with their resources, that their software would be golden. Far fucking from it! Largely because of shit like this.
:fu: Microsoft!

Refalm:
Lavasoft has a similar agreement with another spyware company, and is skipping some spyware as well.

I guess you can only trust non-corparate programs these days, like Spybot (or not using Windows at all, which is much better anyway).

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