The difference is

Post #187,269

12/17/04 9:03:33 AM

The difference is

being "good enough" is not enough here. Spyware is not HTML/HTTP - these are actual people bent on beating anti-spyware tools, not some academics releasing updated protocol specs once evry few years.

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Post #187,275

by folkert

12/17/04 9:34:09 AM

"Good Enough", will be "Good Enough"...

Every tool I have ever thought to be useful, that was either purchased by or licensed to with features removed and included in the OS Product of thiers, has become a terrible waste of electrons.

The feature will be touted by every M$ SHILL from here to eternity. I really hope, they make a GREAT Tool out of this third rate software that GIANT makes.

Personally, I can see it now, M$'s product will remove the other anti-spyware software as spyware. Then, will go on to lackluster in ability. This is something that sometimes needs to be updated multiple times daily, as well as Anti-virus/worm/macro software can be.

I don't agree with this, this just cut out a major portion of the people who really know howto make these things work. I'll bet you that over 90% of the competing product fall into obscurity and wither away, thereby showing "Good Enough" is "Good Enough"

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Post #187,329

by static

12/18/04 12:38:46 AM

This is true.

I work for a maker of spyware removal software: [link|http://www.guideworks.com/|http://www.guideworks.com/] So I know it has to be Good, not just Good Enough.

Fortunately, there's a precedent: anyone remember MSAV? Microsoft licensed a version of Central Point Anti-Virus and bundled it with MS-DOS 6. It was awful. People were widely advised to avoid it. Note that Windows 95 never had any anti-virus software... This is much the same deal: if it's not industry-leading from day one, it will sink.

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