No problems here. All the help files work as advertised, loads at at startup and scans daily. New definitions load slowly. MS recommends you uninstall all other spyware detection before installing: "If you have any other anti-spyware programs on your computer, you should uninstall them and restart your computer before installing Microsoft AntiSpyware. Although removing other anti-spyware programs is not necessary it is recommend because it is possible that Microsoft AntiSpyware could detect spyware that has already been quarantined by another anti-spyware program if the other program has not secured its quarantined files." So far I like this program, which detected a couple of things Ad Aware and Spybot missed. You may want to re-install, Clint. ********************************************************
Another problem,and this one in keeping with the long-standing M$ tradition; every click of every "learn more about [whatever]" or "Learn more about this object" on the program's interface, results in "The page cannot be displayed" and the pathetic thing is it's NOT a webpage from an outside source, but these are supposed to be HTML type info files from WITHIN the program opened by the program! (This same thing happens with the Windows OS Help and Support Center links from within a topic you may have looked up). Even worse, even the "Quick help" link is a bad link! The other issue is it will not load at startup. Even though I have the two boxes check to load for "Security Agents" and "Threat protection", plus I have the "Hide icon" box unchecked, it won't load with Windows. I cont-alt-del'd to see if it was only the icon problem, but nothing new is running, so it's really not loading. Now, it could be that its "protection" is running all the time, or should I say, active all the time like SpywareBlaster and SpyBot's SDD Helper, which aren't really running in the background, but have protection loaded all the time in the form of registry tags and the like. But if this is the case, then why when you exe the program then close it, it goes to the System Tray? So, we have no way of knowing if it's actually "on" and doing anything or not if it's not in the System Tray, until you go to a known threat and let it "do it's thing", then see if the software will stop it or alert you. Finally, when you open the main help file, it doesn't work. Clicking most of the entries at left do nothing! It stays on the main intro page. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
