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Windows Defender (Antispyware) Beta 2 is out
14.Feb.06 | Leave a Comment
Microsoft has just released beta 2 of Defender (formerly known as Microsoft Antispyware (formerly known as Giant Antispyware)). I’ll have to check later today to see if this got folded in with Windows OneCare at all, or if they’re still seperate offerings.
This post is just to announce it. Tonight, hopefully I’ll have some [...]
Odd Bedfellows in the Anti-Spyware Biz
30.Jan.06 | Leave a Comment
Have you seen SpywareTesting.org yet? There’s not much there, but some of what is there is rather interesting. For instance, the Partners Page. Did you ever think you’d see some of those all working cooperatively together? (ICSA Labs/Cybertrust, McAfee, Symantec Corp, Trend Micro and Thompson Cyber Security Labs).
From the [...]
Google is now going to help us with Spyware
25.Jan.06 | Leave a Comment
From Putting a Stop to Spyware, it seems that Google is off to a new crusade. While the cynics will certainly boo and hiss, I think any time any company takes up this crusade it is a “good thing”(tm).
I suppose now I need to figure out why we’ve coined a new term (badware), but the [...]
The usual hodge podge
01.Nov.05 | Leave a Comment
The battle against Winfixer/Virtumundo was rejoined today - and handily won. May they rot in heck. Afterwards, gave Panda’s Activescan a shot. Pretty nice, reasonably fast and the price is right. Worth a look if you’re looking for an online scanner of the free flavor (I’m assuming windows only…)
Finally broke down [...]
Dang Spyware Crap
30.Oct.05 | Leave a Comment
I swear, if death-penalty for spyware and malware authors ever came up for vote, we’d all see what a hard-liner I could be…
Spent well over an hour at client’s place today wrestling with some stupid “WinFixer” popups. Well, the machine had lots of other stuff going on, but even after I thought it was clean, [...]
On the other hand…OSX is a...