Re: MS bought claria,a spyware maker...Do you trust MS antispyware now

From: "kurkosdr" <kurkosdr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

|
| Probably we all have heard about the new, awesome, fantastic (e.c.t.)
| microsoft antispyware.
|
| Before a few months, MS bought the Giant company and made its own
| antispyware, in order to protect the poor Windows users from getting infected
| from spyware. With micro$osft antispyware being distibuted for free, there
| wiil not be any spyware infected PCs anymore. Right?
|
| However, if we take a closer look, we ll see that the situation is a little
| bit more complex.
|
| Micro$osft has also bought the claria company (
|
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+said+to+be+in+talks+to+buy+Claria/2100-1030_3-5769583.html?tag=nefd.top )
a well known developer of spyware.
|
| So how MS antispyware will detect and quarantine claria spyware, if both
| belongs to Micro$oft? It simpy wont!!
|
| http://www.log.gr/assets/msas-claria-2-b.jpg
|
| As we see for the screenshot, MS antispyware detects the claria spyware, but
| it is all marked as "ignored" and they dont get in quarantine! So the
| claria spyware has a new friend know, the micro$oft antispyware!
|
| And, if we take a more closer look, we could say that it basically a plan of
| MS to infect all Windows systems with spyware. While the user wiil feel safe,
| the microsoft spyware will be spying him...
|
| The comments are yours...
|
| God bless Ad-aware SE of Lavasoft!!
|
| kurkosdr
| from greece

Reread that !

That haven't "bought" (past tense) that are in the process of thinking over the acquisition
(future tense). It is NOT a done deal.

It is also makes for a good argument not to use MS Anti Spyware software as it will surely
not recognize the software that the Claria acquisition may produce.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm


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