Windows Defender was previously called Windows Anti Spyware and was purchased from Giant by Microsoft
Giant Anti Spyware was great in its day
Sunbelt- Counterspy had a license for Giant and shared R&D with MS for a year
Counterspy is now on its own and doing quite well
the amount of R&D MS is putting into Windows Defender is unknown
(I would not rely on it as my only on demand scanner)
anybody see any tests on scan effectiveness?
If Windows Defender’s real time capabilities have been retained they worked well when was Giant
so worth a try vs Spybot T-Timer and whatever Spyware Terminator has to offer- or Spyware Doctor
I need to check these out or find where some one has
The discussion of Threat Fire, System Safety Monitor, Sandboxie also has to be done
What can we discuss about SandboxIE? Plain and simple: It rules! Lol
I have been using it for about 6 months and have tested over 150 malware with it, nth ever got out. The only negative about SandboxIE, is that I have become a happy clicker.
I clcik on anything just for the fun of it, cause I knows there will be no bad consequences
Main thrust of the program is anti-trojan
it has a blacklist that it compares to programs that try to run
very effective against programs in its database
it may duplicate what is in the later AV’s with spyware protection
so my statement as it scanning like Win Patrol may be inaccurate or BO clean may also have a registry scanner (for unauthorized changes)
more investigation needed
BOClean is one of the few programs whose updates are shown at spywarewarrior- updates
not a recommendation but definitely not on a not recommended list
BOClean does a very simple and effective thing. For a malware to run and do any damage it has to be loaded in memory first!
As soon as it loads in memory BOClean interacts and snaps its neck!
So the malware hasn’t got a chance to run.
This detection is signature based, so for a malware to be caught it has to be in BOClean’s database, but it’s a very good database in my opinion.
The only thing that bothers me about BOClean, is the fact that it could be lighter on system resources, not that it’s a resource hog, but could be lighter!
