Re: DO NOT INSTALL "SPYWAREGUARD" !!

From: WinGuy (no_spam_at_nomail.bot)
Date: 07/05/04 

Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 15:09:29 GMT

"Peter" <r2d2 at cesmail dot net> wrote in message
news:%23$%239sroYEHA.228@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> OK I used too strong a term. It did screw up things though and the
people
> at Wilders Forums advised me to wait for the newer version. I tried
> downloading it twice, and the same thing happened each time... the desktop
> froze, then redisplayed with all my taskbar items missing and now in the
> Past Items section. I had to do a system restore each time.
>
> --
> Peter.
> Toronto, Canada.
> Windows XP Home SP1. Pentium 4 @ 3.00ghz, 160gb HD, 1.00gb DDR

Did anyone on that forum indicate they've seen or heard before of the
problem you experience? Seems like advising you to wait for the next release
isn't diagnosing the problem very well! I'm strongly suspicious that
something really strange is going on, that it's going to affect the system
in other ways, and that SpywareGuard being affected could possibly give good
clues as to the real root of the problem. The utility just works so good,
looking at the percentages of users who install and have no problem versus
those who have had problems kind of speaks for itself and just makes me
ultra suspicious that something else is very wrong on your system even if it
doesn't seem (yet) to be manifesting itself at the moment. Or not
manifesting in the same way. This is worrisome because after you do the next
MS update you might not be able to go back to an earlier restore point (it
depends on the update, some are not reversible).

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