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OK after spending a good part of my Sunday evening on chasing spyware on my PC, I think I finally won the battle.

Apparently one serious spyware is totalvelocity.memorymeter.

This tool pretend to install a memory check in your systray, but indeed open a huge door to all abuse.

I could sometime suddenly have until 15 popups windows coming from nowhere.

Of course I never downloaded this crap, and I want also to reply to some comments about my previous rant about FeedDemon.

I think some people misread me by saying that I don't like Feeddemon.

That's not true, the problem is not the software, the issue I have is about the feeds this tool provide by default.
Totalvelocity and may other spyware can move on the net by any kind of http stream, and if I am right, FeedDemon use a browser layer to show some feeds.

Since I installed FeedDemon I have now to fight against spyware.

I already found with Ad_Aware from Lavasoft 70 kind of spyware :-(.

But I still have something launching some stupid ads automatically.

So I tried too BOHCaptor to detect strange objects in IE, still the same.

Now it's the turn of Spybot. Grrrr !

I wor with Windows 2003 which is supposed to be the champion in blocking everything :-((.

It's amazing the number of bots which going straight away to the registry ! If somebody know a way to block the registry access or give some alert, I will be an happy man.

By the way check this page for more info on the different anti spyware.

Microsoft should also fight against the spyware in the same strength than with the spammers.

Folks like everybody I enjoy FeedDemon, but be careful, it's an open door to some web spam.

I am struggling now with some spyware coming from nowhere since I used FeedDemon.

I don't think it's really the tools, but surely one of the feed included with it.

So unless you have spyware blocking software, or a personal firewall be cautious.

It's true that the Smart Navigation option proposed by MS is not really reliable.

I just discovered the matter this afternoon where this feature crashed very quickly on a single page.

If I understand well, the idea behind is to use some hidden Iframe to freeze some portions of the page.

So my message to the .Net team is:

Can you make something similar to SmartNavigations tested and working for .Net 2 ?

I am sure that a lot of developers who work on Intranet projects could appreciate to not having every button click on a page doing another refresh.

My Intranet users complain now a lot about this, and I am not going to develop for them a windows forms software for them, I really enjoy to use the browser for my gui.

Good opinion writing from WASP (Web Standard Projects)

Hey I wonder what MS did in Service Pack 3 after viewing the list of bugs fixed in this Service Pack.

You need a free full day to review all the bugs they fixed.

What's going to be with the SP5 !

For the moment I installed it successfully on my laptop, but what's about servers ? I just don't want to be the guinea pig there, too risky after reading the list  ;-))

From Jim:

Update: Only for VS 2002 for the moment :-(

This is a great idea from Codehound. The picture is explicit enough to understand the benefits of this add in ;-)