"cmsix" <cmsix@storiesonline.org> wrote in message
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> "Andy" <andy@indigo.ie> wrote in message
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>> "cmsix" <cmsix@storiesonline.org> wrote in message
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>>> "Andy" <andy@indigo.ie> wrote in message
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>>>> "Andy Walker" <awalker@nspank.invalid> wrote in message
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>>>>> Andy wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>if I download and use another spyware
>>>>>>cleaner is that gonna find even more spyware left???
>>>>>
>>>>> Probably. Malware applications, which includes spyware and adware,
>>>>> are increasing at an extremely fast pace, it's unlikely that any
>>>>> anti-malware vendor could ever have all the necessary information to
>>>>> remove them all. Even those that claim to remove malware "completely"
>>>>> leave tell-tale signs that some other vendor might find.
>>>>
>>>> So all very OK'ish with free spyware removers but what about the well
>>>> known ones you have to pay for? - I don't think that's right that you
>>>> would have to pay for a product and think its going to remove all
>>>> traces of spyware just to find out it has left some traces of spyware
>>>> behind. - or could it be gospel that the ones you pay for remove all
>>>> traces?
>>>
>>> What "pay product" product are you referring to? Would it happen to be
>>> one that doesn't allow a trial download so you can check it out. Does "A
>>> pig in a poke" have any meaning to you?
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>>> cmsix
>>
>> Well say if I were to say a product you buy like Mc*fee or N*rton
>> antispyware products and you have found that you have paid for them and
>> they don't get rid of all your spyware - and especially if you tried
>> another spyware program and it came up with some more spyware found after
>> you ran the one you bought! - in other words if you have bought an anti
>> syware program but free versions had found more or updated their
>> definitions quicker you would quite rightly be angry that the one you
>> paid for didn't remove all spyware.
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> If you bought McAfee or Symantec products you not only have the right to
> be angry, you have my deepest sympathy.
>
> If that's the case please accept my condolences on your loss.
>
> cmsix

If you bought a freezer and it turned out not to freeze you can take it back
under the sale of goods act and say it does not perform what it is meant to
do. So if you buy any of the well known spyware removers from a computer
shop and it didn't remove all the spyware when you run it can you take that
back? - I doubt it.