On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 03:54:23 -0500, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "Dwayne Conyers"
<noah.boddie@invalid.com> wrote:
>
> I was almost tempted to try the beta but hear it turns up too many false
> positives.
[snip]

I can't comment on that specific complaint/rumor; but the larger question is,
why would you even consider Microsoft to be credible in this field, after all
they've done to abuse users' privacy (and enable others to abuse it)?

> I'll stick with Adaware and Pest Patrol for now...

Ad-Aware is fine; but PestPatrol is blatant spamware, promoted and sold by a
frothing loon:

<http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=9ftp43%243g8%240%40216.39.174.41&rnum=1& prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26q%3DPestPatrol%2Bgroup%253Anews.admin.net-abuse.email%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch>

Please do not use, support or recommend it.

The title most conspicuously missing from your "arsenal" is "Spybot Search &
Destroy" <http://security.kolla.de/>.

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