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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Tuesday, March 02, 2004

Spy vs Spy

Flexbeta today has a nice comparison of the top two privacy utilities: Ad-aware vs Spybot S&D.
I installed Windows 2000 on VMWare Workstation, installed the 28 applications and other plug-in, then I created a snapshot of the current virtual pc state (similar to creating a system restore point found in Windows). I then installed Ad Aware, ran an update to have the latest fixes, and scanned the infected virtual computer as many times possible until Ad Aware stated that all infected files were fixed. Afterwards, I ran Spybot S&D to see how many files Ad Aware had failed to detect. After recording all the information, I reverted the virtual drive back to the original state (before I installed Ad Aware) and did the same except this time I installed and scanned with Spybot S&D first and ran Ad Aware second to determine which files Spybot S&D failed to identify.
Pretty interesting, and good testing methodology.
|| Andrew, 9:54 PM || ||

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