Comments on: Microsoft tinkers with anti-spyware tools

Company refreshes its anti-spyware software as it works on a new beta due out later this year.

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Microsoft owns/is a spyware producing company!

Did anyone forget that Microsoft now owns Claria, formerly Gator, a company that is responsible for putting spyware in your PCs in the first place? Did you also forget Microsoft's anti-spyware now regards Claria as not a threat?
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+denies+its+antispyware+favors+Claria/2100-1029_3-5782848.html?tag=st.rn

And lastly, just like every other Microsoft product it has had security issues that with its use put users at risk of PCs being compromised. You've got to be dense to trust any product Microsoft puts out, either quality of that product or its intent.

[JLBer]

Spyware unless you kiss Microsoft's a$$

Is this the same anti-spyware tool that DOWNGRADED Claria/Gator (one of the most well-known and most despised adware/spyware companies) product to a lower danger level coincidentally just after Microsoft enters talks with them?

Just on this one action alone I will never, NEVER trust Microsoft's anti-spyware. Claria/Gator products have been a very large boil on a gluteus maximus of the Internet for YEARS. Everyone who has had to deal with spyware knows it.

Then after Microsoft enters talks with Claria (for reasons that I still don't think anyone really knows), their spyware is downgraded from a threat to only a suggested removal. What utter bulls**t. I wonder how much Claria paid and/or promised Microsoft in order to win that reduction in threat level. This is just another example on how Microsoft is a prostitute that can be bought, ethics be damned.

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Microsoft not buying Claria

"Did anyone forget that Microsoft now owns Claria..."

Not according to

http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3519521

Jim