On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:48:33 +0000 (UTC), Dustin
 wrote:

>"p-0''0-h the cat (ES)"  wrote in
>news:u3jv3a5dp44l10cblfjvv1ta8k84a1leml@4ax.com: 
>
>> On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 13:37:21 +0000, Charles Lindbergh
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>>On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:29:07 +0200 (CEST), "Anonymous Remailer
>>>(austria)"  wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>In article 
>>>>~BD~  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone here use this?
>>>>> http://www.brightfort.com/spywareblaster.html 
>>>>>
>>>>> If so, is it considered to be as good as/better than/worse than
>>>>> Malwarebytes?
>>>>>
>>>>> It was 'recommended' to me way back, in post 3 on this forum:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.spywareinfoforum.com/topic/58733-adware-away/
>>>>>
>>>>> D.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>They are not similar programs by any means.
>>>>
>>>>I've used spywareblaster for some years. It stays out of the way
>>>>and doesn't screw up the machine, and that's more than I can say
>>>>for the resource hog malwarebytes. I had the paid version of the
>>>>latter and it slowed my machine. It also didn't behave nice with
>>>>certain other programs. It never caught anything in the year or
>>>>more I ran it. I dumped it. The great reviews you read here about
>>>>it are from an ignorant malwarebytes fan club. I use only the Win
>>>>XP firewall and a paid AV. I haven't had an infection in so many
>>>>years I can hardly remember when that was. Almost all this
>>>>"defensive" crap, including software firewalls, are little more
>>>>than amusement for bored users who have to be kept supplied with
>>>>new toys. (Let the games now begin - but first, give me a few
>>>>moments to get the cotton in my ears.) 
>>>
>>>
>>>But, could you turn loose on your machine, for 3 hours, a 13 year
>>>old grandchild (unsupervised) and have it remain so pristine?
>> 
>> Just giving them a separate account without administrator
>> privileges will solve 99% of the problem.
>
>No, it won't. :) Clearly you prefer to deny the fact that rights 
>escalation malware does exist and he's using windows XP. [g]

You're talking bollocks Dusty. There is less rights escalation malware
written for XP because so many people run with admin rights anyway and
there is no UAC to contend with.

Privilege escalation is rare and difficult to achieve. That's what the
1% is for :)

Added alt.comp.anti-virus

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