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January 16, 2005
New Microsoft Anti-Spyware conflicts with Dantz backup
I have been running Webroot SpySweeper, the best anti-spyware program out there. But when Microsoft launched Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) Home I had to give free a try. This is just the rebranded version of the software Microsft bought earlier this year. It seems that they didn't bother to do much compatibility testing.
I installed it on both my laptop and my desktop at home. On the desktop computer I run Dantz backup. The laptop and other computers on my LAN have the client software on them. I did not install msSpyware on my wife's Dell laptop. I have a back-up script that runs every night around 2:00am and backs up all the computers on the network to a spare harddrive. After two days I checked the back-up status and noticed that my laptop wasn't being backed up. There were "not sufficient permission" errors and "Can't find back-up client" errors. In windows the two computers can see each other and share common drives. The only thing I changed was adding MS Spyware. Of course the behavior of Dantz could look like spyware. But I didn't even get a message like "program Dantz is trying to access the harddrive". I removed the Ms Spyware from the laptop thinking that it was preventing the back-up program from attaching. The script still failed. So I turned off spyware on the main desktop computer. The script ran just fine. So MS Spyware was not allowing the main back-up machine to reach out and attach to the back-up client and copy down files. Again no message. You would think it would be smart enough to tell the difference between a back-up program and spyware. Bye Bye Msft anti-spyware until you figure this out!
Posted by Martin at January 16, 2005 11:08 PM
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Maybe it's something in the full version of Backup or your problems may be elsewhere. I have MS AntiSpyware installed and I have Dantz Backup Express 6 which runs every night at 3 am to back up my drive to an external drive in two sets. There has been absolutely no change in its performance since MS AntiSpyware was added to the mix. The only errors that show in the log are those related to files that I forget to close before going to bed at night.
Posted by: Judi Sohn 
at January 18, 2005 4:56 AM
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