Re: Showdown: Spyware Search & Destroy SHAMED by Super Utilities for me today

Art wrote:

The problem here is that you've not established that SS&D is lacking
since you've not established that SU isn't false reporting. So far as
I can find, SU doesn't appear on either the lists of "trustworthy"
apps nor the list of rouge apps at this site:

http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm#trustworthy

Whattya know? An *intelligent* reply (actually this is but the 2nd
reply to my post that I've read -- the first was merely a generic,
embarrasingy unoriginal anti-AOL scrawl.)

But point taken, Art -- I admittedly didn't consider the possibiity
of false-positives from SU (although, I hasten to add, to its credit
the app did provide cite the specific alleged-spyware files'
locations.)

I tried SU and it reported two IE related items in my registry.
Whether or not these items are "for real" I don't know. At least
it didn't produce a long list of suspicious reports. Nor did it
produce a list of useless tracking cookies reports. Based on that, it
would seem that perhaps many of the 49 alleged spywares it found on
your PC may be legit findings and not purely fabrications.

Hopefully others will provide some additional anecdotal reports on
this.

One thing
that bothered me about SU is that it currently only has a little over
5,000 sigs. That doesn't strike me as a particularly large data base.

Another good point. Tx!

.

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