Microsoft today silently released an update to the companies popular Anti-Spyware application.
In a posting to Steve Dodson's Blog (Microsoft PSS Security), Steve announced that Beta build 613 had been released to Microsoft downloads.
The main improvements are that the software expiration has been extended to December 31, 2005, users who dock their start bar on the sides of their screen will now be able to read messages generated from Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (beta) and improvements for removing spyware and spyware definitions.
Microsoft plans to finalise Windows Anti-Spyware by the end of the year.
Download: Windows Anti-Spyware Beta Build 613 Refresh
View: Steve Dobson's Weblog | Microsoft Anti-Spyware Home
In a posting to Steve Dodson's Blog (Microsoft PSS Security), Steve announced that Beta build 613 had been released to Microsoft downloads.
The main improvements are that the software expiration has been extended to December 31, 2005, users who dock their start bar on the sides of their screen will now be able to read messages generated from Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (beta) and improvements for removing spyware and spyware definitions.
Microsoft plans to finalise Windows Anti-Spyware by the end of the year.
Features:
-- A brand new programmable shader architecture, with more than twice the
shading horsepower of the previous generation
-- Film-quality, high dynamic range lighting support-the must-have
developer feature for the latest games
-- Second-generation NVIDIA SLI technology, for the absolute highest
performance and best image quality
-- Second-generation NVIDIA PureVideo technology, for home
theater-quality video on the PC
-- Release 75 of the NVIDIA ForceWare driver, for improved SLI
performance with support for the latest games, new HDTV and PureVideo
settings, as well as support for OpenGL 2.0

Downloading right now
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=335827
They removed it from GIANT AntiSpyware.
Note: taken from the Help>About just after installing.
Anyway all my attempts to reproduce the update failing has...well failed. Ok that's short of installing the old ver. and trying all over again, but im not going there now.
Or doesn't this add any more feats and removal options?
BUT I still keep Spybot and Adaware up to date to keep my system as clean as can be!
do a little more research next time
Not that its a lot cos I have 1GB of ram but for users with 256mb thats kinda of a lot.
-Romeo
Methinks a bug, perhaps.
Now did that make sense? Did to me. In any case I like the program and hope the fix the update method to the latest version of the software, instead of a seperate download and install alltogether!.
Always reinventing the wheel!
To anyone getting the error where you click "Real-time Protection" and it says 18 agents running or 100 checkpoints active, but in reality doesn't show them properly or shows them disabled.... This is a bug with the Visual Basic dll's. Apparently, this program requires the latest/greatest VB6 runtime, but the installer doesn't check/install it.
So, the solution is to first close Microsoft Antispyware, then download and install Visual Basic 6.0 SP6 Run-Time Redistributable Pack from Microsoft... available by searching for "vbrun60sp6.exe" or by visiting --- HERE (Download at Microsoft) --- Then, when you power up Antispyware, it should show 59 checkpoints all on duty, and you should be able to actually SEE them, visible and enabled.
Good luck, and enjoy
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