In reviewing Microsoft’s anti-spyware tool “Windows Defender” for The Washington Post, Rob Pegoraro writes, “You’d be foolish to rely on Windows Defender alone to rid Windows of spyware. But you’d be about as foolish to rely on any other single anti-spyware utility. Keep a few on hand, but also use your own common sense and switch to safer software– like the Firefox and Opera Web browsers, which lack the ActiveX feature exploited by the pirated-games site. Or you could just get a Mac.”
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