Microsoft Adds Program to Fight Spyware

NPR | By Larry Abramson

Published January 24, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

Microsoft releases its "Antispyware Beta" as a free download, without saying if consumers will have to pay for it in the future. It works like other free tools available from other providers, scanning computers for software known to have ill inent.

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