Microsoft Anti-Spyware

shnerdly · Feb 13, 2006

This was in todays news on MG.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/02/microsoft_antispyware_deleting_1.html

It says Microsoft Anti-Spyware is calling parts of Norton Anti-Virus, Spyware.

DavidGP · Feb 13, 2006

Hehehe I know many people who say thats not a bad thing

but I guess many still need to understand this perfect quote.

It's a good idea to keep in mind that Microsoft's Anti-Spyware product is in beta mode: The company's product page explicitly says that Microsoft Anti-Spyware should not be deployed in production systems. I'm not apologizing for Redmond in any way; it just seems like too many people ignore warnings about beta products.
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Taken from the above link.

But on a side note.... if its Microsoft product that shows a false positive it's big news, many many of the other products show many more false positives in their final retail products and dont warrant news space.

On the funny note... If I was MS I'd have released the errant defintions on April 1st ( evil me )

Insomniac · Feb 13, 2006

It may technically be Beta, but it was functioning under GIANT as a mature product for many years.

It's not like Micro$$oft completely re-wrote the code and started again.

nickwsu · Feb 14, 2006

I have MS-Anti-Spyware and NAV 2006, never had it detect anything as spyware...

DavidGP · Feb 14, 2006

Thanks for the feedback nickwsu, I dont use Norton but didnt actually notice on a few of the forums I goto anyone actually deleting it or it basically being news worthy TBH.

BTW Microsoft Antispyware Beta 1 is now Windows Defender Beta 2..... available as always http://www.majorgeeks.com/Microsoft_Windows_Defender_d4466.html

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