Microsoft debuts security tools

**Mogga** · 06-01-05

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4151457.stm
Although initially free it is thought that soon Microsoft will be charging users for the anti-spyware tool.

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...e/default.mspx
Download from there - picks up on stuff other programs miss apparently.

**Barry** · 06-01-05

Cheers mogga

have you or anyone else downloaded it to see exactly what it does. I'm stuck on dialup at the moment and will have to download it when my broadband is installed (god know how long thats gona take)

Its something I will def promote from my sites if it leaves network cookies in place (these are often deleted by most anti-spyware tools I have found).

Ta

**billaffiliate** · 06-01-05

seems to be easy to use and comprehensive imo.

**Rich** · 06-01-05

Looks very good. Cleanly detected 180 and removed it, along with a few reminants of other things that ad-aware/spybot hadn't found.

It did falsely identify a couple of things as spyware, but most of these it just reported and didn't want to take any action on, and the one it did want to remove wouldn't have cause any problems.

It also didn't class any affiliate cookies as spyware

Lets just hope they don't charge too much for it - the software they brought was sold for $30 with one year of updates.

**renegade** · 07-01-05

Looks promising, didn't find anything on my system with the quick scan - I've been using SpySweeper previously.

Originally posted by Rich
Lets just hope they don't charge too much for it - the software they brought was sold for $30 with one year of updates.

The target icon looks familiar, what product did they buy?

**Rich** · 07-01-05

It was Giant AntiSpyware.

**Rich** · 21-02-05

If you downloaded this before last Wednesday there is a new version available, which you can just install over the top of the old version and will do an upgrade.

Since releasing Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) on January 6, 2005, we have received feedback from customers and have made enhancements to the software based on this feedback. We have enhanced some of the real-time protection agents, added new threat categories, and improved stability and performance. If you are using a previous version you can simply upgrade to the refreshed version. The version number of the refreshed version is 1.0.509. To check the version number, click About Microsoft AntiSpyware… on the Help menu.