Re: Ping Allan



On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:15:24 -0800, "Barbara Lake"
<bglake@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I downloaded Microsoft's antispyware and it did an automatic scan early this
>morning. It found nothing. Just for the heck of it, I ran AdAware and then
>ZoneAlarm's antispyware right after the Microsoft scan. AdAware found 14
>buggers. ZA found one more after that.
>
>So, I figured perhaps I should have it set for "complete system" scan
>instead of "quick intelligent" scan. About 3:00 this afternoon, I did just
>that. Again, Microsoft found nothing. A scan with AdAware (quick
>smartscan) found 4.
>
>It seems that either the Microsoft software isn't working as it should, or
>there is some other setting I should know about. Words of advice?


I'm not Allan but I think I can help. From what I know of MS business
practices, they probably ignore products of some manufacturers due to
mutual agreement.


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