Re: CA vs. Symantec vs. Microsoft
From: Ken Gardner (KenGardner_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/28/05
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:47:10 -0800
"Dan" wrote:
> Finally, I think Webroot's SpySweeper is the best at
> removing spyware since Microsoft's antispyware was GIANT but it is still in
> beta testing and Spysweeper has been able to remove spyware that was not
> detected in Pest Patrol.
I gave up on Spysweeper months ago because it was finding too many false
positives. I suspect that virtually all third party antispyware will find
more false positives than Microsoft -- after all, they make their living by
convincing people, often wrongly and (I suspect) often on purpose, that some
harmless tracking cookie is a dangerous threat to their computer security.
Besides, I never download spyware in the first place, so none of the programs
I have ever used has ever found any legitimate spyware.
I use the Microsoft program only because it is so seamless with the rest of
XP (a virtue, I'm sure, of it being a Microsoft product rather than a third
party vendor product). If an antispyware program slowed down my machine even
a little, or interrupted me to tell me that an doubleclick.net cookie was
blocked from getting on my machine, I would stop using it, at least in real
time scan mode. [Note: I do block tracking cookies from getting on my
machine; it's just that I do it through IE directly rather than through an
antispyware program.]
Also, the Microsoft is a beta in name only (it is a slightly modified
version of the GIANT program), and even then Microsoft in the past has been
very conservative about releasing public betas (I have used many of them in
the past without any significant problems, including the beta version of SP2
for months before the public version came out).
Ken
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