Giant Antispyware

You'll get a reply. Sometimes they're slow but I always get a reply.

Dave

 

At the beginning, Giant was very responsive. Nowdays, much less so. I certainly don't count on getting a response anymore, especially on the False Positives, so I have had to become more or less self-sufficient in determining whether a detecion is or isn't and FP. Lately, the FPs haven't been happening more frequently, on what I would consider pretty faulty signature logic. I hope they improve quickly because these kinds of FPs can cause real registry problems.

Rich

 

For those trying to figure out the differneces and directions of these two programs, I have the following observations:

CounterSpy is aimed more at business customers where you are trying to protect an entire network of computers. The fact they sell a consumer version is more a by product than anything.

Giant on the otherhand has been designed from the ground up for individual computers; thus better geared towards consumers.

As for definitions, I have no clue how those are handled.

Leland

 

Have a read of this everyone:

http://www.giantcompany.com/intro.htm?aspxerrorpath=/p_antispyware.aspx

Microsoft have acquired Giant!! A very good decision and it proves what many of us have been saying all along that it is a top notch product. Microsoft will be releasing a beta in a month via the Giant site so congratulations to all those who bought Giant.

This may explain the slow responses lately as they were in the process of doing a deal. I've got a 2 year license so I'm happy I chose this product.

Any comments?

Dave

 

Hi Dave, I have my reservations.
Will they be left alone to further develop Giant without adding MS;s famous "security" to it?
Will this stop or slowdown the development of what was becoming a very good program and divert the developers?

I am glad, at least, thet MS recognise where there are gaping holes in their own products.

I do like Giant AS but will reserve my judgement until we gat a clearer picture.

Cheers. Pilli

 

It's not all good news. Microsoft have said that the new version will be compatible with Windows 2000 or higher. If you recently purchased it and use Win 9x then i think you'd be a little miffed. Lucky for me i never got around to trying/buying it, otherwise i'd be one of those miffed people(WinME).

muf

 

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

I wonder where this leaves Counterspy in terms of access to definitions, Spynet, upgrades, &c.

 

I wonder if they're going to bundle this in with their antivirus, when they're ready with that.. I'll bet they'll throw together an everything-in-one product to compete with Norton.

I can just see support calls now: "I just got a blue screen when I started MS KitchenSink.." "that's a feature, your system is now secure against all virii, trojans, worms, spyware, adware, and keyloggers, both known and unknown!"

I'm kidding, of course
But I think I'll wait a few months before considering Giant again.

 

I wished I did too lol...well...we'll see but I don't see it much brighter than you

have a wonderful eve...

Inf

 

this will be the diffirent trail that CounterSpy referred to in relation to giant.

 

In the press release Microsoft say that:

'In addition, key personnel from Giant will be joining Microsoft’s security efforts.'

So in the development area I believe we will still have Giant's key personnel involved but together with Microsoft which I think is a plus because of the added experience. I personally don't mind Microsoft taking over this. If it were Symantec I would be very worried.

Dave

 

Hi there,

I thought you might be interested in this. I've crossposted it from 911cd.net forums. It's a quote by user L3th4l, hope they don't mind me crossposting it here...

So it seems that we can continue using Giant in CounterSpy clothing, at a cheaper cost, and still get the updates. I'm all for it