Bogus Anti-Spyware Products.
 

Dear LOTR

I am always surprised that inexperienced users grab the first product they find, do very little research, and believe everything their unknown product pronounces.

They seem not to realise that the rules that govern their high street shops are very difficult to enforce on the internet, so extra care must be taken when buying, downloading or using anything.

This naivety has lead to novice user "Blah blah blah" using bogus anti-spyware software when a little research would have shown that SpyBot, Ad-Aware SE and MS AntiSpyware are the only trustworthy products out there. The others are either poor clones, loaded with spyware themselves and/or money making gimmicks.

The simple moral is: Always do your research before downloading or buying anything off the internet.




UK Bob

Go to www.microsoft.com and go to the newsgroup.
There you will find that MSAS is still in the Beta stages. YOU will find testimonials from people who say MSAS has crashed their computer completely and statements from microsoft employees that say MSAS gives alot of false positives. The link given two posts above (thanks LOTR) will tell you that Spybot and AD-Aware are the best anti-spyware out there. Limewire is safe. (Unless of course you don't check your files before downloading them as many of us have learned the hard way. But this is not Limewire these are unscrupulous users.)

Don't believe everything Bill Gates tells you.

Ok Teekay,

Get your point.
Thing is I've had some stuff that has given me false positives but MSAS wasn't one of them.
This may be because my computer is a stubborn begga, or maybe not.

I'm no expert, that's the truth. But tell me this (cos I don't know) would you say that you were as experienced in computers as LOTR or UKBob (I've no idea how experienced they 'R'.) Now don't be takin' that the wrong way cos I don't know any of you, RIGHT?
I s'pose what I'm thinking is what does anyone really know...........(not much when it comes to me......)

Lindy xx

DISCLAIMER: No offense was intended in the above. No responsibility will be taken if anyone gets a strop on and damages the floorboards.:) :)

Microsoft's Anti-Spyware has had a series of updates that have reduced the amount of false positives. They no longer falsely detect a threat with LimeWire, and I suspect a lot of other false positives are removed too.

No offense taken Lindy-Loo. Nope I'm not experienced in any way with computers. I was just repeating what I read and was told when I was researching MSAS. I am in no way slamming MS Anti-Spyware, I am planning on getting it once it's out of the Beta stages (not brave enough to try Beta), I just love limewire and hate to see it getting a bad reputation based on software that is still not proven. So I was just putting in my two bits and trying to fight for the good name of Limewire. LOL

Have a nice day!

About Prevx
 

Hi UK Bob,
You know the Prevx that you mention above, can you still get it? The reason I ask is cos I had a problem with the version I had so I un-installed it. Now when I click on that link I can only get Prevx1 which is not the one I had.
The icon of the one I had was sort of a bluey green and grey star like thing and it was free. The one I've downloaded now is only a trial version and the icon is like a set of traffic lights:confused:
The problem I had with the other doesn't really matter but I can't get the original version I had anywhere.

Any ideas??

Cheers, Lindy xx

P.S. Below is part of the post about Prevx


If you want extra safety then use Prevx Home V2.0 as well, this is an anti-secret installation software that stop things creeping into your PC and installing themselves. It is FREE and available from here:

http://www.prevx.com/prevxhome.asp

Lindyloo

You're lucky I came looking this way bewcause I do not usually look at threads this old.

Anyway, the old free Prevx is gone and only Prevx1 is now available, which you now have to pay for after the trial period has ended.

Sorry.


UK Bob

Thanks anyway Bob,

That explains the problem I had updating....lol

Cheers, Lindy xx