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Yup, buy enough companies (or kowtow to threats) and you won't have a spyware list worth the HDD space...

;-)

I'm sure TechZ that your intention was good in the initial posting, but jeez, its...

Then go to Steve Gibson's site and download his freeware 'Shoot the Messenger' -

http://www.grc.com/stm/shootthemessenger.htm

Once you've done that, then either move to the Firefox browser - ...

So, like, do you get a little cheque from Redmond each time you post verbatim a press release for their products?

How about using this forum to post your experiences with the product and noting...

Well, you shouldn't rely on any *one* spyware product, regardless.

Me? Spybot 1.4, Ad-Aware SE 1.05, a-squared 1.6, Crap Cleaner 1.19.108 and Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta 1....

Updated today from the beta of 1.4 and during it's first scan it found a Log item it could not remove -

SchedLgU.txt

- which hadn't been found in the past.

Turns out there is a FAQ...

1.06 installed Saturday and new definitions downloaded Monday!

Good grief.

Of course, you could just set the Search engine of choice within the regular Address Bar of most browsers, but if you want a stand-alone Search Bar, look to the freeware browsers (and gain tabs and...

Probably worth noting that as well as this program, you'll need to download and install (if you haven't already) .NET Framework from Microsoft at a further 23,698 KB.

Seems a bit excessive,...

I can't imagine that Giant produced a finished product (and Sunbelt's CounterSpy continues) with some wacky scheduling issues (among other difficulties as reported elsewhere) so for all that, MSAS is...

Uh, yeah...

I go thru all my emails every six months. If an email I have archived seems no longer relevant (and six months can change a lot) it's history.

I figure if all else fails, I can...

Well, that can't help. How often do you OE > File > Folder > Compact all Folders?

That might only offer marginal improvement, but any could be an improvement. Plus a little judicious pruning...

Beta is as Beta does....

Seems there are a number of features in MSAS that are listed and/or described but not functioning yet and there have been a few cases where something works on one person's...

Jeez....all that to try out a new product? Devoted computeree, aren't you?

;)

Finding a problem like the one you initially suggested, I would have put AVG's product into the 'oh, well, maybe...

Its amazing what some computer companies load onto their machines, isn't it? Compaqs are probably the worst, but I have heard Dell is a close second. They won't support the OS after 90 days but load...

Weird. Sure its the firewall? Same browser with same settings in both machines - including Ad Blocker or whatever your browser uses?

I should talk -

;)

AVG 7 Free, ZoneAlarm 5.5.094.000...

You're a better man than I, Gunga Din....

No AV program is as good as it's fans make it out to be - nothing is capable of 100% protection and its more a case of what is the least problematic for the individual computer and user. Plus, any AV...

Betas, entirely new versions of their software and the Support for them seem to be problematic - I'll give it a pass.

Happy enough (now) with AVG 7 Free and my ZoneAlarm Free...

Like I mentioned previously, there have been other reported sitings of this problem at the Maxthon site, so one suspects a little untidiness within it causing a Spybot false positive. Having said...

Downloaded but haven't done anything about it yet.

Meanwhile, a bit of a surprise from elsewhere - I happened to post a query on the Maxthon browser forum about this (I had just updated that this...

Double rats!

Downloaded, run and - no malicious software was found.....

I'll give a thought to nyquil should nothing else pan out - while I note the Stinger webpage dates it to the beginning of March - about a month behind the variant's date according to the Symantec...

Yeah, I'm not dead keen on that possibility, either.

I don't actually run Symantec - that's just one of the obvious places a Google offered me. I use AVG. For what it's worth, I've posted to their...

And unless I'm incredibly dense (no comments please) I don't think I'm seeing anything that surprises me here. Not dead keen about the references to Messenger, but I believe I've turned that off via...

I've got my homepage locked, so I've not seen a try there.

I got an updated reference file from Ad-Aware today and ran that - it doesn't see it. In fact, so far, only Spybot makes any reference...