To the above anonymous M$ophile (a perversion which, in my experience, is prevalent only amongst M$ lackeys):

Somehow the producers of such anti-spyware programs as Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, and WinPatrol manage to get them to work on ALL Windows OSs - including Windows 95 - and yet they are all FREE. Are you really suggesting that with its comparatively huge wealth and resources M$ couldn't spare whatever tiny amount of effort (and I suspect it would actually be zero) that it would take to get their program to run on Windows 98?

Isn't the real truth that Microsoft's anti-spyware program is deliberately crippled to not run on Windows 98 as a further inducement, or pressure, for users of that operating system to "upgrade" to Windows XP or its successor? In other words, as ever for M$, is it not just simply a matter of pure calculated greed?

P.s. Is your real name Mr Bill ("There is no such thing as being too rich.") Gates?

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