So the Claria & MS Talks are not really real?

 Susan Turner (AKA Suzi) of Spywarewarrior.com has another interesting article. Eric L. Howes passed to Suzi a screenshots of Windows AntiSpyware Beta 1 scan result “recommending” users to “ignore” detections for 180Solutions, WhenU, and other mainstream adware products. 

So MS did not only downgrade Claria but also others. 

Read the complete article by Suzi

Alex Eckelberry in Sunbeltblog has a similar findings:

While the news has been that Microsoft downgraded the Claria listing, we have reports now that there are a number of other items that have been downgraded to "Ignore" status, including certain WhenU adware programs, WebHancer and Ezula Toptext.  So the Claria downgrade is quite likely part of a bigger picture regarding Microsoft's listing criteria for adware

 

 

Published Sat, Jul 9 2005 10:58 by donna
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Saturday, July 09, 2005 2:52 PM by donna

# re: So the Claria & MS Talks are not really real?

Donna:

One minor correction: in a comment to Suzi's blog Richard Stiennon of Webroot claimed that in testing he performed in May 180's software showed up as "Ignore." I have been unable to reproduce this result in my own testing, and none of my screenshots show 180's software being presented to the user with a "Recommended Action" of "Ignore."

The software that I have been able to confirm with a RA of "Ignore" are:

* most Claria products
* most WhenU products (w/ the exception of WhenUSearch)
* Webhancer
* New.net
* eZula TopText (but not other eZula products)

Best,

Eric L. Howes
Saturday, July 09, 2005 5:04 PM by donna

# re: So the Claria & MS Talks are not really real?

Thanks Eric. I tried also today if MSAS will detect 180Solution's software will be flagged as ignore using the current defs. The Windows AntiSpyware suggested to "quarantine"

http://dozleng.com/images/180msas2.jpg