I’ve installed and tried out the new spam fighting tool “Windows AntiSpyware” recently released by Microsoft. They purchased a company called Giant and have retooled their spyware detection and removal tool. I am really liking this app. I recommend people to give it a try.

Its been getting some great reviews too.

In a test by Flexbeta.net, Microsoft AntiSpyware detected twice as many infected files as Ad-Aware and nearly three times as SpyBot the current leading antispyware tools already on the market.

You can read about it in their article, “MS AntiSpyware vs Ad-Aware vs SpyBot”

The review sets up an infected PC using VMWare Workstation and scans the machine using all three tools to see which tool detects the most spyware.

Microsoft’s AntiSpyware Beta does an extremely well job for an application still in beta phase when it comes to detecting and removing spyware/adware; and a nice job when compared to the alternatives such as Ad-Aware and SpyBot S&D.

Though still in beta, Microsoft AntiSpyware was able to detect more infected files than the current leading anti-spyware applications in the market today, Ad-Aware and SpyBot S&D. AntiSpyware’s user interface is better looking than both SpyBot and Ad-Aware, not to mention much easier to use than SpyBot.

If you are interested check out the article by Flexbeta and see for yourself.

So far I am impressed.

I’m not impressed that it will eventually require a subscription for current spyware updates, because this is something the OS should natively handle ….that and virus protection. Build it into the price of the OS, which is fine with me, Windows is super cheap as it is right now.

Some people might want to cry that MS is snuffing out competition and using its so called monopoly power to take over the areas of spyware and anti-virus protection, but these are things the OS by design should handle.

Who is at fault when a computer is infected with a virus? The user or the anti-virus tool that let it through or the OS maker?

The people who gripe and emphasis that MS is responsible for the security of its OS are the same ones who gripe when they takes steps like this to protect it.

This is one more example of how Microsoft is moving in the right direction and taking the OS where I should have always been going.

Download and Try MS Antispyware for yourself it’s free.