Brian Livingston's Windows Secrets newsletter published an article on 27-Jan that was pretty interesting (in a geeky way). He cites the work and draws his own conclusions from the raw data of Eric Howes, a professor at the University of Illinois.
In the article, Brian tallies the results from Eric's raw data to make anti-adware application recommendations. The winner is a one-two punch of Giant AntiSpyware (recently purchased by Micro$oft) and Webroot Spy Sweeper. However the punch is pretty weak at fixing only 70% of the adware found in the test.
Read the article as well as Mr. Howes' Spyware Warrior website for more info (because you ain't gonna find it here).
Posted by joat at January 31, 2005 12:59 PM