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Sheesh your kidding me, I thought there gonna keep the antispyware for free! Spybot and Ad-aware SE are still strong tools together against Spyware, that’s all I can say.
Tech
The latest that I heard also said it will remain FREE.
The website in your post doesn’t indicate how old their information is??? So there really isn’t any way of telling. ??? ???
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I posted some days ago about this new: B.Gates said “MS Antispyware remains free” in a conference. Now I don’t remember where is the post; I posted also the link to the website who reported this B.G.'s words.
Free? M$ will ‘join’ it into OneCare (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=13560.0) with an yearly subscription… :-\ 
Tech if M$ try and charge for their antispyware product imha they will loose plenty of
supporters users of this software. The reason most user are using it today is coz it is free.
This program isn’t bad but I wouldn’t pay for it 
And the reason to be free could be just ‘colect’ samples (of spywares) from the users 
That is probably very true Tech you can not put anything past MS What a start to there malware
data base they would be collecting. We will all have to wait and see mine expires in 66 days
This is in the Message Center on the load up GUI
The article doesn’t mention anything about joining the two products???
I haven’t been here for awhile and was surprised this thread had continued !
I suppose Microsoft security issues will always have an perpetual dynamic.
Just to add a bit of fuel to the collection of Data by M$ idea mentioned by P3t3rb0nn :
I’ve been trying to clean a friends computer, it’s using XP home. Has a damn preinstall of XP (NEC) , and basically the thing is unstable. Because of the NEC factory pre-install it seems you have to basically format the computer if things go wrong, as the XP disk which came with the Comp. is just a recovery disk, which will re-install XP from a HDD partition.
Any way after talking to NEC :
and finding this trap, I rang a technician at Microsoft to try to figure if there was an alternative. I could buy a XP cd and extract what I needed , as some applications aren’t working; OR he said they’d be more than happy to help me fix what we ascertained as a SPY/malware problem. There’s some entries in the Device Manager, which are not hardware , but are pretending to be ???.
I was pretty amazed how persistent he was to help with curing this nasty infection and offering the services of a 1st grade technician.I believe they are collecting info. about Spy/Malware, which is a good thing, and this comp. certainly is under the control of a sophisticated virus.
It was picked up by my friends teenager who uses P2P programs , and game emulaters.
The software for the M.A.M.E. emulator has established itself as Hardware ; and there’s a “logical Disk Manager Administrative Service” & “Windows User Mode Driver Framework” entry also. These are listed with ? & ! as unknown devices 
Any wasys, if I dont have to Format I’ll be happy !
So on Monday will be analysing the system with a bigtime M$ tech. They use HiJackThis logs as their major tool. Aint that funny that a free program is the Major tool of this billion dollar company. And the logs are worth there weight in gold to them I bet ;D
Funny old world idn’t it !!! 