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Thursday 6 January 2005

Sucked (in) by Gates, again

Warning. Geekspeak ahead.

Being a slave to Microsoft, I'm always very aware of spyware infecting my computers. Up until now, I've relied on Lavasoft's AdAware, which has been mostly OK, but they had an annoying habit of releasing new versions and not updating the definition files in the old versions, without actually telling you.

Anyway. Microsoft have now released their own software to block spyware; and it has a number of other useful functions, including user-friendly ways of controlling what programs your PC starts up when you switch on. Annoyingly, so far, it seems very good.

One small foible; for some reason, (and being a cynic I can think of one at least), it treats the excellent Google Desktop Search Engine as a browser hijack, and recommends most strongly that you remove it.

I also noticed today that hotmail.co.uk addresses are now available, so I've detached my existing address from Passport. Which I should never have associated in the first place. Now the spam damage is done. Anyway. "dustbinman (the at sign) hotmail (fullstop) co (fullstop) uk" is the place to find me now on MSN Messenger or email. Unless you have my other address, in which case stick with that one.

Posted by dustbinman at 18:56 | Permalink

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