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AntiSpyware Expired and I'm back from the future

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Antispywareexpired

Um...OK. Man, these AntiSpyware updates make the product less and less helpful.

Posted at 2005-09-03 11:03 PM by Scott
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Sunday, September 04, 2005 1:22:58 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Right!
I'll replace it with new software soon.

Keyvan Nayyeri

Sunday, September 04, 2005 3:28:15 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

So does Microsoft consider the time travel portion of their beta a "feature" or "bug"?

Chris

Sunday, September 04, 2005 6:51:21 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Probably got some legacy stuff from the version that expired on July 31? Uninstall completely then reinstall the latest. Or switch. :)

Greg Hughes

Sunday, September 04, 2005 10:27:54 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Well, geez, Scott, from the tray in your screenshot, it looks like you had three instances of AntiSpyware going. That's going to make it expire three times as fast! ;)

Brian Schroer

Sunday, September 04, 2005 1:12:05 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Hahaha Brian I was just about to mention that. It's odd though I run MS Antispyware and it's never caught anything. Adsense is always picking things up though!

Nick

Monday, September 05, 2005 4:40:04 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

I've noticed that anitspyware creates new tray icons. It's like it's caught an exception and quit, restarted itself and not cleaned the tray. if you hover over the icons all but one of them disapear (one at a time though so it can take a while to clean the tray)