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Skriven 2007-06-04 10:38:00 av THURSTON ACKERMAN (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av CHARLES ANGELICH
Ärende: Vista anti-piracy
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CA>Hello Alan -

CA>CA>>> I'm wondering now that this 'cat' is out of the bag how
CA>CA>>> long it will be before M$ inlcudes patch files to allow
CA>CA>>> them to cripple XP within one of their critical upate
CA>CA>>> downloads? I see nothing that could prevent them if
CA>CA>>> crippling Vista is 'legal'.

CA>DC>> M$ worries far more about their OS than they do about
CA>DC>> their apps.

CA>DC>> Few people run more than one OS. Few, if any, run only one
CA>DC>> app.

CA>DC>> As was stated earlier in this packet, their spyware
CA>DC>> program gets very poor reviews. Yet, that's a program most
CA>DC>> every should have.

CA>AZ> It's unfortunate that Windows Defender is getting such poor
CA>AZ> reviews lately-- Giant Antispyware (which MS purchased and
CA>AZ> based Windows Defender on) was well-reviewed, and earlier
CA>AZ> versions of what was then called MS Antispyware were also
CA>AZ> well-reviewed.

CA>AZ> And the poor showings of Windows Defender is especially
CA>AZ> worrying since it is included with Win Vista-- so
CA>AZ> presumably within a short while, millions of Vista users
CA>AZ> will be relying on it, and in many cases not be aware of
CA>AZ> its shortcomings.

CA>M$ can't do a 100% cleansing of "spyware" while trying to
CA>install their own "ET call home" at the M$ update webpage. They
CA>would be shooting themselves in the foot.

CA>Discussion, here, about spyware becomes something too much like
CA>discussions of anti-virus. Keep in mind that most spyware is
CA>"invisible" to the user and does no reall 'harm' to the OS or
CA>other applications. Spyware is intrusive and annoying but
CA>nothing as potentially destructive as virus or worms/trojans.
CA>IOW spyware is no big deal really.

(sorry to be so late referranceing this subject but hospitalization
and recovery take longer when one gets in ones late eightys 8-)
and I value your experiences and opinions.

I recently ran SP2 on one of my XP OSs and ended up with Defender
and the Win firewall on my desktopper (along with the extant AVAST
(that doesn't appear borthered by it all)

My understanding has been that the Defender didn't match up to the
performance of other anti- software because M$ didn't up date the
data files often enough (ADVAST appears to up date every 2 or 3
days). Has Defender improved this aspect lately?

I used to use satisfactorly AVG until about a year ago my internet
cable supplier (Comcast.net) added some anti-spam that prevented
my acquireing my emails; so I switched to ADVAST.

Ciao, OldAck

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