Microsoft AntiSpyware beta

Do you ever find anything with your Microsoft AntiSpyware beta? It has been 3 months since it found a tracking cookie. As a Microsoft beta tester, I will be contacting Microsoft with your answers (only answers, no user names). I know it's free, and a beta, but really!!! So many people have it, but it never finds anything. Microsoft must have done something to it.

I would love to take some facts to them, if someone will give me their thoughts on this program. Maybe we can get it to find something again?!

 

Its never found anything on my machine.

 

Found last night, don't worry, it looks a very good app.

 

i uninstalled it coz it never found anything at all and i had it for a few months.

 

Just ran it again, found nothing. I then ran Adaware which found 8 tracking cookies

 

Never found anything on my machine, however neither has any other application.

 

Found one this morning.
John

 

Ditching MS-AntiSpyware because it doesn't find any cookies is plain silly, you can easily delete them daily/several times daily with programs like CCleaner (free), Window Washer etc.

It's strenth is adware/spyware and the fact you don't find any, could of course very well be because you havent got any!

 

Exactly Don!
If that were the logic......then I'd be ditching M$AS, SBSD, AAW, EWIDO, et al......because they all find nothing.

 

MSAS has only found 2 keyloggers (in a zip and exe installer) that I store on my computer for testing purposes, they are not installed in my computer at this time. They were SpyAnywhere and Invisible Keylogger. It hasn't really found anything else that I can remember, but like others have said here, neither does any of my other many anti-spyware programs that I have. Except Pest Patrol which is still always finding false positives.

 

Didnt say I was ditching it, just reporting the facts from my machine today

 

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/faq.mspx

 

Ok, i was speaking in more general terms, the fact is that cookies are best handles by simply deleting them and keeping those you need (like the one for Wilders with the cookie keeper in CCleaner or which ever trackscleaner program you use and use MS Anti for some of the more heavy spyware you might come in contact with.

 

AFAIK, MS AS doesn't look for tracking cookies. There was "talk" about adding that feature, but so far haven't done so.

Regards - Charles

 

the only thing it found was my p2p bearsharelite i have adaware se,spybot with tea timer on,spywareblaster,i've just added spywareguard because msas was giving me this problem
everytime i use ejay [a music program which has no spyware] the microsoft antispyware won't work it just flashes up and disappears unless i reinstall it anyone know how to fix this so it does?
i also found when uninstalling it left 124files behind not very impressive!

 

This is an excellent program and I would not remove it from your machine, even if it never finds anything.

I started this topic to find more out about this program from this forum. I will be submitting information to Microsoft on ideas to make this program better. I really like the many features included with it and would keep it simply for those tools.

However, I do think it can be better and will be, when it is finished. All of the imput will help shape the future of this excellent malware & security tool. Thanks to everyone who submitted their thoughts on this program. Hopefully we can get a lot more to respond.

To clarify the cookie debate. Microsoft AntiSpyware does not flag tracking cookies. The item it flagged on my system in June was listed by M.S. as a threat. Upon researching the item in my database, I discovered it was indeed a tracking cookie and nothing more.

The other day it found another product when my wife was online. It was the IBIS Toolbar, windows/unvise32qt.exe and it flagged it with a pop-up. It could not clean it, so I did manually. I do agree that just because something is not found, does not mean we should uninstall the program.

 

mine often stops things from installing my own stupidity?...so that yes is good!!

 

Do you have Quick Time installed?

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14328738

Regards - Charles

 

Hey "maddawgz," if we could get EVERYONE to use this feature, the world could be something really great!

Thanks "Charles" for the link! I read all of it and feel I should have known that. I do have QuickTime but have it blocked by my firewall. I will manually remove it when the time comes. I test ISP's and it came with AOL, at some point. Your information was right on!

 

the beta verison can't find cookies the full one will. and it has found stuff kazaa put on my computer

 

Very true,

Mine fines nothing as well but if I run Pest Patrol it will find a plethora of cookies trackers, it even missed some key loggers that Pest Patrol did not.

I think MSAS is a very good program but it is "Beta" so it is not perfect, and it does not hurt having some overlaping protection that covers what it currently does not.

 

It's a small detail and I know it's still a beta version, but it irritates me :

MSAS's icon in the system tray has a yellow message with the text :
"Microsoft AntiSpyware - Active"
I don't know what other people think, but when I read this message, I think that the MSAS realtime is active and working.

When I click right on this icon, I can "Disable Real-time Protection" and when I do that, the yellow message says again :
"Microsoft AntiSpyware - Active"
Do you think this is good or wrong ?

 

What's even more irritating is after a scan having to get rid of the tray icon (gcasDtServ.exe).

Regards - Charles

 

I don't have THAT problem, but you didn't answer my question.

 

It sounds like you found a bug.. I expect you have reported this?