Microsoft Spyware Beta

If you're running a Microsoft OS, they have released a Beta program of their new spyware detector/destroyer program that you can dowload it for free. (Darn it! Somehow the blogger interface thing just deleted my post from here!!!! Now I have to rewrite it!!) Anyway, I thought I wouldn't have any spyware on my computer because I have protector programs running all the time and I don't download a lot of stuff. (Who knows what shenanigans Andrew gets up to-- or wants to know).

But the program actually found 10 spyware programs on my computer. Most of them were elevated to high threats. So I removed them, and they got them out of the registry and everything. Give it a try if you want a freebie from Microsoft. I know a lot of people have "issues" with Microsoft, but hey, for my money, it's a pretty good deal. (In the year 1999, I had students do a paper on the predictions for the end of the world in 2000. When you ran a search on apocalypse and/or the antichrist, you used to find a bunch of webpages that claimed Bill Gates was the antichrist. Pretty funny. I don't know if they're still there.)