Microsoft Antispyware - Page 9

- Conslusion

Without a doubt, Microsoft has a winning product here, even if its not 100% built-in house. It offers many options, features and of course, performance. Microsoft's Antispyware comes to fill a gap which Microsoft has left blank, everyday trojans/dialers/spyware software threatens our PC privacy and causes us no end of worry. We would expect from Microsoft, to have the software pre-install with upcoming Service pack releases since newbies may not care much or understand the meaning of installing antispyware software.

The performance was very good, comparing the test results against well known adware scanners (Ad-Aware, Spybot Seek & Destroy, ScanSpyware). The real-time agent offers additional protection and of course, Microsoft's SpyNet online community is a good addition and possibly will offer much protection in the near future. Don't forget that the software is still in beta stage. Hopefully the final versions would offer more protection and other interesting features. In the meantime, we will continue to keep the software installed on our PC. Some may think that using Microsoft software to remove trojans is somewhat ironic, but only time will tell :-)