Re: Any feelings on Windows Defender (sic!) beta 2?

"POP" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> "Mike Easter" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> I don't use any.  Some people should use a really lot of them,
>> I guess.
>
> Interesting.  I only say this because I know you're experienced
> enough to not panic about it, but I'll bet if you download and
> run Adaware (lavasoft.com) or Sypbot Search & Destroy
> (spybot.com, I think), that they will find about 25 "hits" for
> varying degrees of imortance on your system.  Unless you surf to
> a lot of new places often, in which case it might find a lot of
> them.  You don't sound like the kind that will have much actual
> malware, but I'll bet it finds a lot of trackers, maybe some info
> senders if nothing else.
>   IMO Adaware and Spybot are the two better ones, but there are
> some newer ones out there that I've never tried that people speak
> well of.  As always, ymmv on any of them, of course.

I'm with Mike on this one. I *do* have anti-spyware installed but I can't 
remember the last time it actually found anything - basically, because my 
system is so locked down and I don't click links "blindly", so there is very 
little opportunity for any malware to get onto my system. I'm not saying 
it's impossible but it's extremely unlikely. Anyone who's getting "25 
'hits'" is browsing the internet *very* insecurely - IMVHO.