{"id":305,"date":"2005-01-06T11:56:36","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T18:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameskovacs.com\/2005\/01\/06\/Microsoft+Enters+Antispyware+Fray"},"modified":"2005-01-06T11:56:36","modified_gmt":"2005-01-06T18:56:36","slug":"microsoft-enters-antispyware-fray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/2005\/01\/06\/microsoft-enters-antispyware-fray\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft enters Antispyware fray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Microsoft has entered the antispyware fray with a surprisingly named product &#8211; <A href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/athome\/security\/spyware\/software\/default.mspx\">Microsoft AntiSpyware<\/A>&nbsp;&#8211; which is currently in beta. (After the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.telecommander.com\/pics\/links\/application%20software\/microsoft\/Microsoft_Bob_1_0\/Microsoft_Bob_1_0.htm\">Microsoft Bob<\/A> fiasco, Microsoft has gotten a lot better at naming its products &#8211; even if the names are a tad obvious. Hmmmm&#8230; I wonder what Microsoft Content Management Server does???) Anyway Microsoft acquired GIANT Company and its antispyware product&nbsp;only 23 days ago, which is a quick turn-around to re-brand a product. As <A href=\"http:\/\/www.hanselman.com\/blog\/PermaLink.aspx?guid=ee491a77-0aba-485c-9dfb-7477acdfc29b\">Scott Hanselmann points out<\/A>, they missed a few spots though. Still Microsoft AntiSpyware is a welcome addition to our arsenal of tools against malware. I&#8217;m wondering how it will fare against SpyBot and AdAware.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has entered the antispyware fray with a surprisingly named product &#8211; Microsoft AntiSpyware&nbsp;&#8211; which is currently in beta. (After the Microsoft Bob fiasco, Microsoft has gotten a lot better at naming its products &#8211; even if the names are a tad obvious. Hmmmm&#8230; I wonder what Microsoft Content Management Server does???) Anyway Microsoft acquired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}