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I don't understand! I just got an Wallop invitation from a friend of mine. The invitaiton comes from mywallop.com domain. Here is a copy of the email.

“Dear Tejas Patel :

*********has invited you to join Wallop, where you can share photos, blog and interact with your friends!

Click on names of people in your social network to explore what's new with your friends and their friends. In Wallop, the more you interact with your friends, the more you will appear connected. We will let you know who's interacted with you in Wallop through email.

To join Wallop, go to http://www.mywallop.com. Your login name is "my email address", and your Wallop password is: "my password".

Here is a personal message from *********: “

I really don't expect Microsoft Research to send me my password in a simple email message. Are'nt they aware of the security threats? Will anybody explain me why would they do so, especially when people handling this work for a company like Microsoft! Am I missing anything? Explain , please explain.

Tejas Patel

I had to try this. Since I came back from holidays I heard from people that Microsoft came out with a anti-spyware program. They said they won't be trying it soon as it was still in Beta. Well I could not wait nor do I care of it breaking anything on my system. So I searched for it and here it was. The installation was smooth. I started the scan and it finished scanning 15200 files on my system (Intelligent Quick Scan) in 1 mintue 30 seconds on my system. As my system is well protected by firewall and stuff, there were no spyware found on the system. I have tried some other Spyware programs before but this one is neat. 5 minutes of roaming around the system should make one familiar with the features and functionalities of the system. Well I like this application as I now won't have to install 2-3 different small apps. I used to use 'Hijackthis' and 'Lavasoft Anti-spyware'  before to clean out all the spyware from my system.

Specially I liked the System tools (which contains System Explorer & Browser Hijack  Restore) & Privacy tools section of this application. I think Browser Hijack Restore and Privacy tools can be handy to most of the people and can be used on a daily basis. If I continue to use this tool, I can use these features on a tool on a daily basis. I can delete my traces from my system (superficially) while leaving for home from office and while going to bed at home. Well I look forward to see a better product with better and more features in the future. Not sure if the rumours are right or wrong, but I have heard that Microsoft is going to charge for this tool as soon as this tool comes out of Beta.

A recommended tool to try out.

Tejas Patel