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post #21 of 40
1/9/05 at 12:02am
will try this software!
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post #22 of 40
1/9/05 at 1:12am
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Originally Posted by Hentai
I know, I know....

ive just been really lazy and haven't put an img...
I was playing LSL: Magna Cum Laude, jokes were funny but game got old quick........
Yeah, that game did NOT go over well. I'll give you some love for being an intrepid gamer! I'm going the other direction. I've still got MGS Snake Eater in the shrinkwrap! I've had it for about three weeks! This happens every time there's a fluxuation in the consumer force, and 50 awesome games come out at the same time (Christmas, or just before!). I'm still trying to wrap up D3, HL2, it's gonna take forever to finish San Andreas if I wanna catch EVERYTHING, and then there's MGS.

Just waiting for Enderet to rain down explicitives now!

Oh right, stay on topic. Software beta still works fine. I've only visited THIS site for the last two days, and there isn't anything malevolent in the NBF cookies! Get off my back, Microsoft, I'm using your programs! Wadda 'ya want from me?

Sorry Hentai, sometimes I vent 'cuz Mr. banana here really chafes my ass with his dancing!

Stop it, banana!
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post #23 of 40
1/9/05 at 1:23am
The hell....?

Anyway, GTA San Adreas is supposed to have 100 hours of gameplay, easily. And the folks from XPlay (Game Review Show, G4TechTV) have been playing it for ten hours strait and still did not get off the first island, which I remind you is huge.

As for Anti-Spyware, I just heard that Microsoft is also coming out with Anti-Virus tools soon, and I bet you both of these are going to intergrate 'perfectly' with SP2, meaning one hole brings your entire system down.
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post #24 of 40
1/9/05 at 1:52am
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Originally Posted by Cool1Net6
The hell....?

Anyway, GTA San Adreas is supposed to have 100 hours of gameplay, easily. And the folks from XPlay (Game Review Show, G4TechTV) have been playing it for ten hours strait and still did not get off the first island, which I remind you is huge.

As for Anti-Spyware, I just heard that Microsoft is also coming out with Anti-Virus tools soon, and I bet you both of these are going to intergrate 'perfectly' with SP2, meaning one hole brings your entire system down.
No need to remind me. I've been working on increasing my reputation in Los Santos for about 5 hours.

Are you saying "one hole" in your Exceptions within the fire wall?
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post #25 of 40
1/9/05 at 10:30am
I cant wait for the PC spin-off! I loved GTA3 and Vice City, but being an avid PC gamer I couldn't stand buying a PS2.... There'd probably be only a handful of games that id actually want to own.
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post #26 of 40
1/9/05 at 12:31pm
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Originally Posted by Hentai
I cant wait for the PC spin-off! I loved GTA3 and Vice City, but being an avid PC gamer I couldn't stand buying a PS2.... There'd probably be only a handful of games that id actually want to own.
Yeah, there's some lag running around San Andreas when the right weather conditions, number of cars, background, and speed apply. I think they tried to roll too much in the game, and you can tell on the PS2.

Microsoft's beta continues to load at startup when I have explicitly asked it not to. Starting to notice some of Anaconda's advance settings quirks
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post #27 of 40
1/9/05 at 9:25pm
I noticed the slowdown in San Andreas within the first 10 minutes of playing it. There wasnt even that much going on; just speeding down a road on a sunny day. Guess I hit the car in front of me at the right angle and there was the right amount of stuff laying around.

As for Anti-Spyware, I can't even have high hopes for it, because lately everything Microsoft has made is crap (Windows Media Player 10 crashed 5 times at one of my friends parties ... had to switch to Winamp to keep the music goin') and I even remember a Microsoft rep stating that explicitly.

I also heard that Bill Gates, in the middle of a Windows Media Center demonstration, had his computer freeze, and another rep from his company, in the middle of a demo of a new game, got the BSOD. All this at CES.
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post #28 of 40
1/10/05 at 9:35pm
About time M$ starts to cover their a$$ for crappy products. I don't think it will be a crappy product because they didn't make it.
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post #29 of 40
1/10/05 at 10:37pm
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Originally Posted by lostbob
About time M$ starts to cover their a$$ for crappy products. I don't think it will be a crappy product because they didn't make it.
But if they bundle it with their next OS out of business goes Lavasoft and any other anti-spyware CO.
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post #30 of 40
1/10/05 at 11:11pm
I dunno...

Im contemplating uninstalling it, but every now and then I download something or let somebody look at something and BAM! spyware....

That Icon annoys the hell out of me, Its too ugly! and It Starts up even though I have requested that it doesn't start with windows... It is free tho....
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post #31 of 40
1/11/05 at 2:33am
I would only put up with something that is free if it actually does what I want it to do when I want it done. Because I like complete control, I consider that it can't be told not not auto-start a negative point, but its still in beta. Hopefully M$ will fix it in later versions.
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post #32 of 40
1/11/05 at 2:44am
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Originally Posted by Cool1Net6
control, I consider that it can't be told not not auto-start a negative point, but its still in beta. Hopefully M$ will fix it in later versions.
Well the option is there to turn off auto-start, but it doesn't remember a lot of the settings I tried changing (close program and open it again and it's back to defaults). I'll attribute that to a beta version bug.
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post #33 of 40
1/11/05 at 6:12am
I always hibernate so nothing ever changes and i shut it down under RUN/msconfig
I run lavasoft and M$ picked up 6 things from Exact that lavasoft didn't

this world is full of people that don't have a clue about computers and M$ finally addressing a big issue (adware,spyware) and thy are suppose to be comming out with a virus program too?Right? All they need now is a better OS
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post #34 of 40
1/11/05 at 11:56am
It is pretty cool. I downloaded it and was testing it at work. Then I compared it with some of the others:

MS- Found 3 criticial registry entries.
Ad-Aware- 6 cookies
Spy Sweeper- nothing

I also like the prompts that come up whenever your home page is about to be changed or if an Active X component to be run.
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post #35 of 40
1/11/05 at 12:17pm
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Originally Posted by FriedToast
Since it was MS, I was going to pass over it completely. But then the few positive remarks in this thread made me think, Ah what the heck- I'll try it out. I ran Ad-Aware and Spybot (checked both for updates before running) at the same time. Ad-Aware and Spybot both found 5 tracking cookies whereas MS failed to find any bad cookies. However, MS found a F@#%in' keylogger on my computer. Recently my eBay acct had been hacked and I couldn't figure out for the LIFE of me how it'd been done. Now I've got a reasonable lead on how they got as far as they did.

Keylogger was Admon or something like that. Got it from Photovista 3.0.

Impressive first showing for MS, though. Showed that Ad-Aware and Spybot aren't exactly at the top of their games. For now, I'm going to stick with the 3-tier system instead of the 2. Major failure on Ad-Aware and Spybot's parts. Surprising, really.
I agree whole heartedly, Toast, and here's the proof. I ran this on my work machine yesterday.
LL
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post #36 of 40
1/11/05 at 12:32pm
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Originally Posted by The Anaconda
Scans fast, the descriptions for each item are a nice feature. Tends to forget some advanced settings, though.
What advanced settings are you referring to?
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post #37 of 40
1/11/05 at 12:44pm
The options to disable it from starting automatically, to disable the active detection, and a couple other things as well. I don't remember the others. I'd uncheck them but when I'd look again they were checked again.
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post #38 of 40
1/13/05 at 11:55am
I just want to throw something in here....I have been running AOL's spyware detecter and being a rookie i thought it was decent(go ahead and laugh)....after downloading MS's spyware beta...it found close 19 files or registry changes that could be potiential threats compared to AOL's 8....so from my experience, although limited, MS has done pretty good
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post #39 of 40
1/13/05 at 6:46pm
Well its their monopoly, the least they could do (MS) is help out with all this garbage and spyware....

Now if their was a way to kill spam...
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post #40 of 40
1/15/05 at 2:05am
They're probably working on it
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