"Micro$oft acquires spyware firm, changes antispyware app to ignore its products"

[Zepper]

So what's new??? :disgust:

Saw It Here First It's a blog so the entry may move down the page over time.

Source Link

Looks like you now have to check your settings if you are using the latest beta release to make sure Gator etc. are properly handled.

.bh.

Links fixed, I hope...

 

[BlueWeasel]

That link is FUBAR'd

 

[Kasper4christ]

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/07/1234217

i'm assuming thats the right link eh?

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

:thumbsdown:

Microsoft antispyware was actually pretty good too.

 

[Schadenfroh]

:thumbsdown:

 

[corkyg]

That is too bad - Gator was perhaps the worst of the early spywares. I destroyed it long before the first anti-spyware came out - used Roboform instead. It is genteel, useful and well behaved.

I still like Microsoft Anti-Spyware - but I don't rely on it alone. It stands guard - but once a week I close it and run Spysweeper. It looks at a lot more, but hasn't found anything that got by Microsoft.

Gator truly sucks. Maybe Microsoft is going to use some of their technology and can the product? Symantec has made a living doing that.