fatdcuk
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join:2005-02-20
England
|  C&D backfires(Hotbar Vs Sunbelt CS)
A follow on from the Cease&Desist order issued to Sunbelt(makers of Counterspy) from Hotbar.Not only did Sunbelt refuse to drop detection of Hotbar products but subsequent investigations have led to reclassifying of Hotbar products.
info here-
»sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2005/06···elt.html
Big respect to Sunbelt for backing up their stated software service to their customers and not capitulating under legal pressures like certain other software vendors!
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Cudni
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join:2003-12-20
Someshire | Big respect to Sunbelt for not backing up but fighting or not fighting in legal arena is not a trivial matter. Having a good legal team or even an inspired member helps
Cudni |
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Tony_W
join:2004-11-01
| I'm testing out Counterspy at the mo, but am surprised there has been no update this weekend yet. I installed it last week, and I understood Microsoft were supplying definitions to Sunbelt in addition to their own, but none have come through even tho MS have issued an update through to MS AntiSpyware/GIANT AntiSpyware users. |
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Trooper
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join:2005-05-18
USA
| I have CS as well and noticed the same. However, they do not rush to update things as was happening in the past. They use the MS defs *plus* add in there own.
I believe the end result is far less FP's than was happening some months ago with CS. There are some topics on this over at castlecops (where there official forums are located).
HTH,
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mers2
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join:2004-03-20
USA
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| reply to Tony_W
said by Tony_W  :I'm testing out Counterspy at the mo, but am surprised there has been no update this weekend yet. I installed it last week, and I understood Microsoft were supplying definitions to Sunbelt in addition to their own, but none have come through even tho MS have issued an update through to MS AntiSpyware/GIANT AntiSpyware users. Counterspy generally updates more frequently then it has this past week. That may be due to the Microsoft Tech Ed in Orlando this past week. »[Other] Microsoft Tech-Ed 2005 Report from Orlando
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Tony_W
join:2004-11-01
| reply to Trooper
said by Trooper :I believe the end result is far less FP's than was happening some months ago with CS. Cheers for your comments about the update - glad to see I'm not imagining things. 
I have heard of the false positives that were happening in the early days, and I guess they were teething troubles with the product being new. I know of a friend who tried the product last December, and got alerted to a shockwave .dll file as being "spyware". |
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mers2
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join:2004-03-20
USA
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| said by Tony_W :said by Trooper :I believe the end result is far less FP's than was happening some months ago with CS. Cheers for your comments about the update - glad to see I'm not imagining things. I have heard of the false positives that were happening in the early days, and I guess they were teething troubles with the product being new. I know of a friend who tried the product last December, and got alerted to a shockwave .dll file as being "spyware". They are now beta testing definitions prior to release so that has cut down tremendously on fp's.
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