Microsoft Antispyware - Page 8

- Tests

At the same system, running WinXP SP2, Kaspersky AntiVirus Personal, we use each software's "Smart" or "Quick" scan method to see what kind of protection each software can give us. The results are rather surprising, since the freeware Ad-Aware software, didn't report any serious threat, only some negligble objects

The ScanSpyware software reported 205 possible infections, including Flashget, Cydoor, Grokster:

while with Spybot Seek & Destroy v1.30:

Microsoft's Antispyware reported three major threats and various registry keys that need to be removed

We also tried the full scan option with Microsoft Antispyware, the total scan time was a little higher, however the same spyware threats were found

Now it was time to remove the spyware software. According to Microsoft Spyware

As it seems that all trojans were removed, we are now safe...Or are we?

After removing all spyware entries, we used another software program to re-scan our PC. ScanSpyware software found more entries

So did Spybot Seek and Destroy.

After we removed the newly detected above entries, we tried to re-install FlashGet. A popup screen came up, from the Real-Time protection agent, warning us about the adware that Flashget includes: