I have a brand new computer that came with Windows Vista Home Basic. I also
purchased Windows Live One Care "Which I am told from a tech. that comes
with Windows Defender built in". One thing I really don't understand is in
the two weeks that I have had this computer I keep scanning and scanning and
scanning and nothing comes up "Nothing at all, no Qaurantine's, no problems
reported, no spyware/addware etc....". I used to have Windows Xp Sp2 and
have all kinda spyware programs to check for spyware and there are sites
that I could go to and everytime would get spyware. Here's the thing I can
go to those sites now and scan my computer afterward's with Live One Care
and still nothing shows up. I haven't installed any of my other spyware
protection programs because I wanted to give Live One Care a chance. I have
Spycatcher/F-secure/Norton and many others but I am kinda concerned untill
they are announced as being 100% comptible to run them because I don't want
to run anything that is going to misread a program that might be important.
I think this either means Vista and Live One care are preventing the spyware
and addware from being installed and just not telling me that it is blocking
it or my computer is infested with the stuff.
Could it be that a lot of the addware stuff just isn't Vista compatible yet?
Ideas anyone?
"Robert Firth" <webmaster@winvistainfo.org> wrote in message
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> Go ahead and scan with another anti-spyware program, but Windows Defender
> does an excellent job. I've tried scanning for spyware with defender and
> others, but nothing has appear yet.
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> "Mr. Cool" <Mr. Cool@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>>I periodically scan with Spybot and, now that I have Vista, with Windows
>> Defender. Should I be using another anti-spyware program?
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