I hope you will forgive me that i prefered to wrote in german. But my basic- & schoolenglish is verry bad.

Ich wollte den Verantwortlichen von Sbybot ("search & destroy") in deutsch danken ! Meine Muttersprache ist zwar italienisch, aber ich kann mich im Namen von vielen anderen europäischen User auch bedanken .
Mein Dankeschön gilt auch dem sozialen Engagement von Spybot.
Viele wissen nämlich nicht, dass einige Millionen ALG-2 Empfänger...

I'll start the talk about the user interface with error messages, where our conclusion from 1.x was that we did not stay true enough to a very important concept. Well, proper error dialogs are rarely encountered anywhere, but that should not be an excuse.

A good error message should have three purposes, possibly four:

1. Inform the user that something went wrong in terms he understands.
2. Make suggestions how to correct the problem.
3. Provide information that may help customer support

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With the recent escapade of the change of Facebook terms [Consumerist Article]...then no change...then plans of change in the future...,the issue of privacy is once again brought to the front of our minds.

I recently read an article that revealed how people use Facebook to extort money off others. All it involves is creating a fake profile, adding people to your friend list (and also their friends because people are more likely to trust you if you have their friends aswell), socialising...

GMail - Brilliant webmail with loads of space (7305MB and counting at the time of writing). So much space that Google actually encourages you to not delete any email! Email however, does not take up much space, so even when following Google's marketing, a huge amount of space is left sitting around collecting virtual dust.

However, there is a way to make better use of all this free space Google has given us - GMail Drive.

GMail Drive does exactly what is says on the tin...

With the rising of rootkits and professional malware, cleaning those away got more and more important and should earn a more prominent position next to scanning.

The cleaning concept in Spybot-S&D 1.x is already doing a lot, like for example trying more than a dozen methods to get rid of files. It's a bit one-dimensional though, and one of its worst disadvantages is the need to do sometimes do a complete rescan on boot to cleanup some files. Cleaning in Spybot 2.0 will therefore...