Where have all the Good Anti-Spyware Apps Gone? -

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Taranis join:2001-12-06 Mount Vernon, WA 1 edit	Where have all the Good Anti-Spyware Apps Gone? First Lavasoft - a mainstay of my arsenel for a couple years, along with Spybot, then Giant. All three are now apparently compromised. I just verified WareWolf's statement - ***DAMN! New.net and LSP.New.net, a real nasty one... Unbelieveable! I use the old Giant Anti-spyware, and so far I like it, but I'll assume that it'll go the way of the Adaware and Spybot and cave to CORPORTATE GREED... already MS's beta doesn't detect as much as when Giant owned it - let's hope they do better with the final version. I'm no MS basher, but I'm not holding my breath for MS to do the right thing. Instead of an anti-spyware consortium, what we need is an anti-ADWARE consortium, immune from the bribes and backroom dealings and intimidation from so-called companies that call themselves "legit", with a simple Mission Statement: "If it installs itself, with or without user permission, and serves up advertisements, we will do everything in our power to acquire the ability to detect and remove it." I'm glad I never bought Adaware or Spybot. What a waste... If this keeps up, I'll have separate machines, Windows PC's, off the internet to keep them immune from spyware, and Linux desktops/laptops for online browsing and e-mail. This is why I have ad-blocking software. This is why I have a customized hosts file. This is why I block Flash. One thing perpetrates the other, however unrelated technologically-speaking. I don't want advertisements - at all. PERIOD. Perhaps erroneously, I lump flashy banner and skyscraper ads right up therre with scumware. It's on my machine, it's annoying and I don't want it. The best ads I've every seen online are the simple text ads that Google puts in during a search. Those I can live with. The rest can go to hell. ..bastards.
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Taget join:2004-07-29	Microsoft tends to be anti anyone but Microsoft. And they have enough billions that it's tough to buy them. If anything it's more likely they'd be overzealous rather than underzealous when it comes to wanting to remove stuff not written or sold by Microsoft.
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B Premium,MVM join:2000-10-28	reply to Taranis Re: Where have all the Good Anti-Spyware Apps Gone I think Kolla put them in that last precisely so that you COULD filter them back out again. In other words, they're on a probation of sorts, not truly evil but not yet proven enough to be removed from the list. »msmvps.com/donna/archive/2004/05···732.aspx Either that, or he's joined the dark side too. -- B -- In a realm outside causality and function
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