Microsoft Anti-Spyware?

Microsoft Anti-Spyware?
Kelly Martin, 2005-01-06

Microsoft has jumped into the anti-spyware market, but is this a new approach to thwarting bugs, or are they gearing up to profit from a dubious industry they helped create?

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Microsoft Anti-Spyware? 2005-01-07
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Why let MS have a chance in this derby? Re: Microsoft Anti-Spyware? 2005-01-07
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Why let MS have a chance in this derby? Re: Microsoft Anti-Spyware? 2005-01-08
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Why let MS have a chance in this derby? Re: Microsoft Anti-Spyware? 2005-01-18
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Read the license agreement again 2005-01-12
Anonymous

Read the license agreement again - it says the USER (!) must make sure they're not VIOLATING THE SPYWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT (!) by doing the uninstall. All the license agreement is doing is shifting responsibility from MS to the user for violating spyware license agreements, which the user has agreed to by installing the spyware or the trojan it came with. So you can use the MS tool only to remove spyware which has a license agreement allowing you to remove it.

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Anonymous

Great Article 2005-01-16
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Microsoft Anti-Spyware? 2005-01-19
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