# Microsoft Anti-spyware App Ignores Spyware

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**Created:** [July 7, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/microsoft-anti-spyware-app-ignores-spyware/154202 "2005-07-07T18:32:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/microsoft-anti-spyware-app-ignores-spyware/154202/1 "2005-07-07T18:32:01Z")

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[http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1834607,00.asp](http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1834607,00.asp)

> [@eWeek](#):
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> Less than a week after published reports of acquisition talks between Microsoft Corp. and the Redwood City, Calif.-based distributor of the controversial Gator ad-serving software, security researchers have discovered that Microsoft has quietly downgraded its Claria detections.
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> Anti-spyware activist Eric L. Howes, who serves as a consultant to Sunbelt Software, discovered the default changes during a recent test that included four Claria applications: Dashbar, Gator, PrecisionTime and Weatherscope.
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> According to the results published by Howes, four different builds of the Windows AntiSpyware beta detected the Claria products, but the default recommendation was “ignore.”

Now, the Windows Anti-spyware app is set to ignore Gator ad-serving apps. It still detects them however.