Research on Anti-Spyware produced by Microsoft

Although Microsoft's acquisition of the Anti-Spyware software provider Giant may result in Sunbelt infringement litigation and resistance from other anti-spyware software vendors, Microsoft is Microsoft, although there are many difficulties, however, the development of the new version of Anti-Spyware still takes effect. Today, new anti-spyware versions and previews are released on foreign software websites. Let's take a look at what Microsoft anti-spyware is like!

Microsoft's anti-Spyware is not just a function of Anti-Spyware. It mainly includes Spyware Scanning, Real-time Protection, and Advanced Tools) from the above three parts, the Giant AntiSpyware interface is very similar to the next-generation operating system Longhorn that Microsoft is developing. Therefore, it is very easy for users to use it.

Scan spyware

As the main function of the software, Giant AntiSpyware, like other Microsoft products, is very easy to use or set, and even uses the default settings. If you use a foreign website for editing, it is: "As long as you perform simple settings and scan your system once, you will no longer see any Spyware in your system!"

　　

Figure 1 Main Interface of Giant (click to enlarge)

The scan results of Giant AntiSpyware are very detailed, but it seems that it takes a long time to scan 0.14 million files, which takes half an hour in total.

　　

Figure 2 scan results

In addition, Giant AntiSpyware imposes strict monitoring on websites that may infringe user privacy on Cookies, when you encounter a suspicious site, you will be reminded to ignore the site, check whether the site has threats, or delete it directly (the default option ).

　　

Figure 3 Site Monitoring (click to enlarge)

Part.2: Real-time Monitoring Protection

Unlike general anti-spyware, which only provides network monitoring, Giant AntiSpyware provides users with a complete set of real-time monitoring and protection to monitor networks, systems, and applications in a timely and effective manner, when any unknown program or service tries to run on your machine, Giant AntiSpyware will block it and remind the user.

Some users may block the programs or services they need due to their carelessness, and do not remember whether they have been blocked afterwards. It doesn't matter. The instant monitoring protection item of Giant AntiSpyware also provides a blocking event record, where you can view programs that have been blocked.

　　

Part.3: advanced tools

In addition to the two common anti-spyware functions above, Giant AntiSpyware also provides some practical tools: System schedulers, System Inoculation, Browser Hijack Restore, Tracks Eraser, and Secure File Shredder.

　　

Figure 5 advanced tools (click to zoom in)

Browser Helper Objects (BHO) IN System Explorer can detect the Internet Explorer auxiliary plug-in installed in the current System, and use a simple and clear illustration to tell users whether the plug-in is safe or dangerous, in case of danger, users can easily block or delete it.

　　

Figure 6 BHO plug-in Control Panel (click to enlarge)

System Inoculation can detect possible security vulnerabilities on your machine:

　　

Figure 7 Security Vulnerabilities (click to enlarge)

I believe everyone is upset that Internet Explorer has been modified by some malicious websites? With Browser Hijack Restore, users can easily recover the website regardless of how the website is modified.

　　

Figure 8 easily restore the default IE homepage (click to enlarge)

Everyone knows that Windows and other software will record user operations for convenience, but this is not a good thing for friends who work in the company or do not like others to know what they have done. Tracks Eraser is easy to cope with such problems. It clears all your operation records, and no one knows what you have done on this machine... (exaggerated: D)

　　

Figure 9 clear Operation Records (click to enlarge)

The last one is Secure File Shredder. Is there any File you don't want to leave? Drop it into the Secure File Shredder. If you use any restoration software, you cannot retrieve those files ~

　　

Figure 10 file shredder (click to enlarge)

Part.4: Conclusion

According to the current data, the powerful functions of Microsoft's Anti-Spyware software are enough to make other anti-spyware vendors feel nervous. If Microsoft retries to integrate it into Longhorn, certainly can pull a large vote user... however, in this case, someone will jump to Microsoft again ~ In any case, the compatibility between Microsoft's Anti-Spyware software and its own systems is certainly not comparable to that of other vendors. After the official launch, will it be able to take a place in the Anti-Spyware market? Let's wait and see!