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Review by FileBEAST's Nameless_1:

Instead of focusing on external threats to your system, XP-Antispy is an excellent utility for removing some of the annoying internal features in Windows XP, such as automatic system updates and authentication. While the utility is very small, it packs an impressive array of features, allowing you to tweak a whole range of built-in Windows functions that can otherwise become very annoying. The menu is divided into 7 categories, each of which allows you to make changes on the fly. The media function, for example, can be used to disable automatic codec downloads, and the error reporting function can be used to remove that annoying Microsoft error reporting box that appears after a system error, which is to say fairly often. While pretty straightforward to use, XP-Antispy is really intended for experienced users, and although beginners will gain some benefit from it, they should be weary of making changes without understanding the consequences well in advance. This is an incredibly useful, highly necessary freeware application and comes with a high recommendation.

Publishers Description

XP-AntiSpy is a little utility that let's you disable some built-in update and authetication 'features' in WindowsXP. For example, there's a service running in the background wich is called 'Automatic Updates'. I don't know what this service transfers from my machine to other machines on the internet, especially the MS ones. So I play it safe and disable such functions. If you like, you can even disable these function manually, by going through the System and checking or unchecking some checkboxes. This will take you approximately half an hour. But why wasting time when a little neat utility can do the same in 1 minute? This utility was successfully tested by lots of users, and was found to disable all the known 'Suspicious' Functions in WindowsXP