Re: New Microsoft Anti-Spyware Tool

From: Rene Tschaggelar (none_at_none.net)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:45:38 +0100

TCS wrote:
> <html><input type crash></html>
> begin On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:45:16 -0500, Mark Jones <abuse@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>
>>Free DL (beta), free updates, Anti-Spyware network, cleans BHO's,
>>more... it found things on my PC that SpyBot nor Pest Patrol found.
>>Interesting technology, check it out:
>>http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
>
>
>>-- "Perseverance, and perseverance alone, is omnipotent." MCJ 1998
>
>
> Now, if only microsoft would bring 60's technology to the desktop and
> quit having users run as administrator by default.
>
> On my linux machine, even if I ran a web browser as insecure as internet
> explorer, there's no way it could install anything on the system. The
> web browser running in a user account simply hasn't the priviledges.
>

They indeed sell us old technology as new invention of theirs.
Then this talk of Billy about intellectual property and such ...
The track record is not really in favour of theirs what security concerns.

Rene 

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