Anonymous

North East, UK

Security Manager

A friend of mine was using a freeware anti spyware, and started to use Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) thinking that it should work better with Windows.

A while later he complained to me that his pc was running slow and asked me to take a look. I suspected spyware so ran the previous version of freeware anti spyware. It found over 1100 traces of spyware on his PC including trojans.

If Microsoft are to deliver products even free ones they should do what they are created to do, not give people the feeling that they are protected when in fact the opposite is true.

It is a case of credibility and so far their forays into desktop protection are poor at best. Since one of the major problems facing businesses and home users in the UK is the creation of zombie networks it leaves a pretty poor taste when they are promoting how good their security is.