Microsoft have just finished distributing an internal Beta 1 escrow build to internal beta testers. "Atlanta" is the code-name for Microsoft's rehashed GIANT Software Anti-Spyware. In a memo internally, the company looks clear to distribute the software this coming Thursday calling it "new, it's fresh, and it's all good".
Encouraging employees to install the Beta is one of the many ways Microsoft tests Beta products internally. It's not clear whether the release this Thursday will be a public beta or a private external beta.
Check out our exclusive screenshots below.
Update: Microsoft is currently detecting Messenger Plus! as Spyware.
View: Microsoft Anti-Spyware Beta Newsgroups
Screenshot: Install | Setup
Screenshot: Main Screen | Scan Settings
Screenshot: Realtime Protection | Advanced Settings | Main Settings
Screenshot: Auto-Update Popup
Screenshot: System Summary
Screenshot: Messenger Plus! Spyware
Encouraging employees to install the Beta is one of the many ways Microsoft tests Beta products internally. It's not clear whether the release this Thursday will be a public beta or a private external beta.
Check out our exclusive screenshots below.
Update: Microsoft is currently detecting Messenger Plus! as Spyware.
View: Microsoft Anti-Spyware Beta Newsgroups Screenshot: Install | Setup Screenshot: Main Screen | Scan Settings Screenshot: Realtime Protection | Advanced Settings | Main Settings Screenshot: Auto-Update Popup Screenshot: System Summary Screenshot: Messenger Plus! Spyware
NOTE: The update is still free for all registered users (also of Windows Commander)
What's New in This Release:
· Crash when starting with option iconsinthread=0
· Image loading via Irfanview stopped working with some newer Irfaview versions
· Added: New content plugin function to define the default sort order, e.g. ascending for name/extension, descending for size+date/time
· Added: New content plugin field type ft_datetime (combined date+time)
· Added: Clear file lists before switching to new tab, to avoid sorting of the old list by the new sort order (slow)
· Added: totalcmd.inc: Moved section FileOperations in front of section Configuration (necessary so cm_Edit is found before cm_EditConfig!)
· Added: Win9x/ME: Show error "Too many files" with lists longer than 32700 files, the maximum supported by standard listbox controls
· 16-bit version: Show error "Too many files" with lists longer than 16380 files, the maximum supported by 16-bit tcollection
· Fixed: Multiline files.bbs comments: Remove leading spaces and | from additional lines when editing and displaying hints
· Added: Windows NT/2000/XP: Copy file lists to clipboard as Unicode text (cm_copynamestoclip etc.)
· Fixed: Changed MD5 checksum format to Unix standard: MD5 checksum, one space, an asterisk "*" indicating binary check, then the file name
· Added: Search dialog: Move "encrypted" checkbox to location of "compressed" on Win9x
· Fixed: Could not unpack while in thumbnails view
· Fixed: Name+Ext. columns weren't initially translated when TC started with custom columns view
· Fixed: Move current thumbnail into view when resizing panel or maximizing Total Commander
· Added: Correctly truncate file extension also in Show - Brief with BriefViewWidthLimit= set
· Added: Custom columns view: cut off name only at end of ext column when there is no extension
· Added: Thumbnails view: Show extension always attached to name (not right-aligned) if thumbnail width 2 GB not always working
· Fixed: FTP over HTTP not working if the proxy was sending a login banner larger than 8 kBytes (now: up to 16 k possible)
· Fixed: Close TC 6.5 with custom columns mode sorted by one of the columns, start older TC version -> crash. Solution: Save custom sort orders in separate variables
· Fixed: Custom columns view: Sorting by (int).size or (int).date not working in FTP, plugins and Nethood
· Fixed: Thumbnail view: Ignore invalid thumbnails returned by the Explorer method
· Fixed: Thumbnail view: Don't send notification for thumbnails without an image
· Fixed: (again, see 19.11.) Clicking behind LAST column in thumbnail view selected first item on the next line
· Fixed: Disabled Ctrl+PageDown on files in plugins or ftp, it could hang the program for a while
· Fixed: Don't create quick search dialog when typing letters during drag&drop, could lead to freezing of TC
· Fixed: Maximized custom-columns dialog was shown at the wrong position
· Fixed: Custom columns view: vertical position thumb wasn't updated when changing sort order
· Fixed: Update header position in custom columns view also when scrolling horizontally with an Intellimouse (untested)
· Fixed: LongInStatus=1 not updating status line when switching to thumbnails view
· Fixed: Don't count dir size on in custom columns mode if (int).size isn't shown
· Fixed: Scroll back to 0 horizontal position when switching between custom column views
· Added: Larger width of dropdown comboboxes in search - plugins
· Fixed: Custom columns view: Revert to sort by name when switching between custom column views
· Fixed: Sorting with on demand or delayed custom columns not always working
· Fixed: Wrong icon shown for junctions in thumbnail view
I think that I'll go ahead and buy a commercially product for 100$ that gets rid of spyware. I mean, why use tools that Microsoft provided to me because I bought Windows?
Conclusion: Hell yea! I'll give it a try also!
Wrong. Spyware is created for IE because it's the only browser that exposes an interface (ActiveX) that allows remote hosts to install software on your machine through the browser.
Well, I had it installed when everyone had it on. I shoulda mentioned that. Even then, it was short lived until i got a hold of Kazaa w/o Spyware
Shudders.......
Well firefox is not an anti-Spyware tool, but with good browsing sense and a "good Sense browser" like firefox or mozilla suite, you are more than secure, IE will keep on getting patches until the end of the world, and Microsoft now capitalizes on his browser defects,..
Now that i think about it, What company profits from it's mistakes??...
This is a new market for Microsoft, My Software flaws make me RICH!!!!....
ok i didn't install Kazaa only for hype..
Oh and f**k kazaa
plus Yakkob I'm British and I've never said 'Dumb-Bum' (or have the intention to do so) in my life - dumbass.
I, personally, can't wait for this to come out. Looks awesome!
Since you used it before Dragon, is it any good?
looks great. i might give it a try, if it's publicly available.
And what do you base that upon? Do you know that they will change the interface later on? Do you think it is common to not change the interface until after the beta phase?
I think they will keep it just as it is. It looks plenty "Luna-ish" to me. Even more than their Media Player anyway.
No CheeseCow, I think you got the wrong end of the stick - the two of you are actually making the same point. Because it's in beta already, it's unlikely that UI changes will occur now. That's what Uxtheme was saying, I think - not that they'll change it after the beta..
A Windows XP computer where you haven't bothered doing anything for security is a swiss cheese but probably pretty fast and requiring no maintenance, while one that you've done tons for security is barely usable.
Trial for 15 days though.
Typo
Its sad if you are an idealist.
Their browser is completely crippled by today's standards and is due out for a reconstruction at this day in age.
Overall the rise of spyware has been at fault due to the lack of security in their very own browser.
Yea, and break a proportion of the web. Yes I know, I know, "MS broke it in the first place", "It's just correcting a mistake/making it standards-compliant" etc. but like it or not, many pages, especially those that use CSS2+ are 'broken' standards-wise to display correctly with IE, and changing the mainstream browser technology will only serve to break hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of sites.
That's just the way it is.
Just my thoughts though.