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BrutusMaximus said:
Guess I might have to give it another try.
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It worked great when it first came out, but over the past months it seems to have gotten less and less effective.

Of course the licensing deals MS has been signing with companies that used to be on their list of ad/spyware makers but no longer are couldn't possibly have anything to do with it.
 
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BrutusMaximus said:
You are kidding me. I have never actually tried it, but the computers I have seen it running on usually run like ass until I close it :biggrin:

Guess I might have to give it another try.
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I will say I'm skeptical of it, let's just call it a conflict of interest for Microsoft to be running and cleaning your computer. However, I just got done cleaning up someone's virus and spyware infested computer, after the majority of it was clean and there were those last few annoying ones that wouldn't come off Ad-aware stopped finding stuff first, Spybot found a few more and couldn't get rid of them, and Microsoft Anti-spyware got rid of 5-7 major ones--More than the other two even recognized. So I am suprised and impressed, that being said, I don't think I'd trust it as my main protection, just a good backup.
 
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Hodge said:
I will say I'm skeptical of it, let's just call it a conflict of interest for Microsoft to be running and cleaning your computer. However, I just got done cleaning up someone's virus and spyware infested computer, after the majority of it was clean and there were those last few annoying ones that wouldn't come off Ad-aware stopped finding stuff first, Spybot found a few more and couldn't get rid of them, and Microsoft Anti-spyware got rid of 5-7 major ones--More than the other two even recognized. So I am suprised and impressed, that being said, I don't think I'd trust it as my main protection, just a good backup.
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I'm always skeptical of MS shit, but if it found, and cleaned, 5-7 major spywares that Ad-Aware and Spybot couldn't even find, then common sense would dictate MS would become my primary anti-spyware tool. Your primary layer of protection shouldn't be less effective than your secondary.
 
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