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Just before Christmas my Dell (don't buy one) 1.4 ghz running WXP Pro was running slower and slower. Ad Aware, Spybot, and NAV all came up with nothing. Formatted the hard drive, reloaded WXP, and it's running great.

Reminds me of the scene in "Aliens" when Hicks says "Dust off and nuke it from space - it's the only way to be sure"



----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 8:33 AM
Subject: [PCTECH] WOW - Microsoft's Spyware Scanner



Anyone tried Microsoft's Spyware scanner ?



I am STUNNED if this is accurate. I have a notebook (Dell) running Windows
XP that belongs to a friend of my nieces (I really should start charging
family and could probably quit my day job - very large family :-)).



This thing was running like a DOG. It was way behind on patches, had all
kinds of Spyware and a couple of viruses. So I get it all cleaned up using
Sophos antivirus, AdAware, HiJack This, Spyblaster, BHODemon, and McAfee
Online Scanner and it was clean. But still running like a DOG.



Well after XP Service Pack 2 downloaded and installed I ran Windows Update
again and after the final run and all was clear I got a page that touted the
Windows Spyware Beta. I've read about this and really did not have much
interest. That has changed.



I did a Deep Scan (no the default) and got the following:



24 Spyware threats detected

69 Spyware files infected

288 Registry keys infected



All 24 are rated High or Severe and they are all legit !



VERY interesting to say the least. And very impressive.



Chuck



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