Counterspy?

[JIP]

Anyone got any experience of this - in terms of effectiveness, comparison to
others such as Super AntiSpyware etc?

[Nick Skrepetos]

JIP wrote:
> Anyone got any experience of this - in terms of effectiveness, comparison to
> others such as Super AntiSpyware etc?

I think you will find SUPERAntiSpyware picks up things CounterSpy
misses and CounterSpy will pick up things SUPERAntiSpyware will miss -
simple reality in the spyware game.

Nick Skrepetos
SUPERAntiSpyware.com
http://www.superantispyware.com

[JIP]

> I think you will find SUPERAntiSpyware picks up things CounterSpy
> misses and CounterSpy will pick up things SUPERAntiSpyware will miss -
> simple reality in the spyware game.
Well I think that's the most honest response I could ever have expected
Nick. No sales talk, no bull ***, no ridiculing the competition - I think
you just gained a convert.

[Nick Skrepetos]

JIP wrote:
> > I think you will find SUPERAntiSpyware picks up things CounterSpy
> > misses and CounterSpy will pick up things SUPERAntiSpyware will miss -
> > simple reality in the spyware game.
> Well I think that's the most honest response I could ever have expected
> Nick. No sales talk, no bull ***, no ridiculing the competition - I think
> you just gained a convert.

It's just the reality of the spyware game/landscape - no product, ever,
will be able to get everything on a given day - so the idea is to run
multiple layers - SUPERAntiSpyware is designed to co-exist with
existing security applications for that reason.

Nick Skrepetos
SUPERAntiSpyware.com
http://www.superantispyware.com

[Crispy Critter]

On 31 Oct 2006 13:47:13 -0800, Nick Skrepetos wrote:


> It's just the reality of the spyware game/landscape - no product, ever,
> will be able to get everything on a given day - so the idea is to run
> multiple layers - SUPERAntiSpyware is designed to co-exist with
> existing security applications for that reason.

That's kind of an expensive avenue to take though. Wonder how much spyware
is put on the net by entities that have a vested intertest in selling anti
spyware progs.Same with virii. Not accusing you of doing this but it makes
one wonder where all the spyware is actually coming from.

[Nick Skrepetos]

Crispy Critter wrote:
> On 31 Oct 2006 13:47:13 -0800, Nick Skrepetos wrote:
>
>
> > It's just the reality of the spyware game/landscape - no product, ever,
> > will be able to get everything on a given day - so the idea is to run
> > multiple layers - SUPERAntiSpyware is designed to co-exist with
> > existing security applications for that reason.
>
> That's kind of an expensive avenue to take though. Wonder how much spyware
> is put on the net by entities that have a vested intertest in selling anti
> spyware progs.Same with virii. Not accusing you of doing this but it makes
> one wonder where all the spyware is actually coming from.

It's not the anti-malware/anti-spyware vendors fault they can't get
ahold of every sample on every single day - you would not believe the
number of samples we, and other vendors, receive on a daily basis -
thousands and thousands of samples.

You wonder where the spyware is coming from - bottom line - companies
such as Dollar Revenue pay big bucks per install:

USA $ 0.30
Canada $ 0.20
United Kingdom $ 0.10

The spyware market is probably more lucrative for many companies than
the anti-spyware market - if we were writing the spyware, don't you
think we could remove all of it?

If users were not surfing Porn, Stealing Software (Warez/Cracks),
Stealing Music/Videos (p2p) - the whole problem would not be so great.

If people were willing to pay for software and services on the web,
there would be no market for the spyware vendors - they spyware targets
"free" because users just can't keep away.....users are the ones in
control of changing the spyware game - the anti-malware vendors are
here to clean up the mess...

Nick Skrepetos
SUPERAntiSpyware.com
http://www.superantispyware.com