diverging slightly

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Spybot Search & Destroy competitors are trying to force its removal" at - http://www.betanews.com/author/smfulton3/2 -.
I can't get the full article to load.?????But i could email it to myself.

"Safer Networking names three manufacturers in particular: Trend Micro, Kaspersky Labs, and McAfee Software. Though their anti-virus products are, Safer Networking says, compatible with Spybot S&D, their setup routines claim a conflict with one of Spybot's optional components: a memory-resident live anti-malware signature checker called TeaTimer. Even if TeaTimer is not active, the setups first ask or even require the user to uninstall Spybot before proceeding.

Safer Networking says that Symantec used to also tell its Norton AntiVirus users to uninstall Spybot S&D, but ceased the practice a couple years ago after pressure from the company and its users."
This coupled with my own experiences of Microshaft,s AutoUpdates disabling and removing spybot and installing free AVG,and disabling Outpost Firewall and re-instituting MS firewall;It leaves one feeling distrustfull and vulnerable.

Also;"Microsoft used software activation without a license, jury finds
Irony and Microsoft continue to go hand-in-hand, as a Rhode Island jury finds Microsoft's software activation scheme violated a much smaller company's patent."