Re: Microsoft AntiSpyware falling further behind

Hello Mr. Travis,

While I agree that AntiSpyware from all venders has a long way to go I 
would hope they would concentrate on binary detection over cookies.  In 
comparison cookies pose little security risk.  I would much rather have 
a AntiSpyware app that did no cookie detection but did an excellent job 
of of stopping rouge binaries from landing on my HDD.

Hope everyone is having a good week,

Duston Sickler, A+, MCP
www.shonsey.com

Quark IT - Hilton Travis wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>It seems that not only does Microsoft AntiSpyware recommend that
>Claria's spyware is ignored, but it also misses a significant amount of
>cookies that are placed on a system - I have a VPC environment where I
>browse the Internet so that anywhere I go won't affect my regular
>Windows session/installation.  Regularly CounterSpy is detecting cookies
>(such as Cok.ad.yieldmanager, CGI-Bin, Cok.AssassinTrojan2.0 and Zedo
>(from yesterday's browsing)) that Microsoft AntiSpyware simply does not
>know about.
>
>Now, this is not only disappointing, but potentially dangerous.  Any
>customer or end user running Microsoft AntiSpyware or CounterSpy is not
>being protected from these cookies, and MSAS doesn't even detect them -
>that's right, neither program's active monitoring is stopping the
>installation of these cookies, but at least CounterSpy is detecting them
>post-installation.
>
>AntiSpyware is far, far from the accuracy of antivirus, especially
>something like NOD32.  I wonder how long it will be before a decent
>AntiSpyware application is released that, like NOD32 does with viruses,
>actually stops spyware *before* it is installed?
>
>--
>
>Regards,
>
>Hilton Travis                          Phone: +61 (0)7 3344 3889
>(Brisbane, Australia)                  Phone: +61 (0)419 792 394
>Manager, Quark IT                      http://www.quarkit.com.au
>         Quark Group                   http://quarkgroup.com.au/
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>Microsoft Small Business Specialists
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>http://www.threatcode.com/ <-- its now time to shame poor coders 
>into writing code that is acceptable for use on today's networks
>
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