Helloween Edition - beta 1

[Sleek26]

Well you see the thing is, it could be my setup becuase it worked fine before then all of a sudden it stopped detecting firefox along with spywareblaster, i have no clue, i just thought it was a problem with vista and spybot.

[PepiMK]

So... it is on Vista in your case? Then it was probably this issue, but not fixed for you?

[Rosenfeld]

Clean install on XP SP2. Running well. Now only 3 seconds for the GUI to show (faster than ever :-).

[ferrux]

Thanks Pepi
it's much faster also in the updating definition process.

Ferrux

[wk357mag]

Oh sorry, I didnt really explain that last post, but will now.

Yeah, I do NOW read your instructions on removing the spybot shredder entry.

The second one, is from the ERASURE shreddar, which I recommend and prefer!

Thanks I now know how to fix what I want to

[DrWhoFL]

I'm still pretty new to this forum, so I may not be up on all the rules yet.

So I'll ask, "Is it ok to say WOW!!! on this forum?"

OK, at the risk of being set down to the principals office by the teacher, I'll say it anyway.....

WOW!!!

I did a Google search for the latest Beta upgrade, the Halloween edition and downloaded and installed it.
NO Problems! The process went off, smooth as silk.

Every problem I was having, or even thought I was having has been fixed. NO more 40 seconds to load, and no more floppy drive growling at me. The whole program seems to be Fuel Injected and NITRO Boosted.

Someone's been busy.....to get so much into just one upgrade.

Thank Y'all ! (as we say here in the south)

I had incorporated the registry fix to stop the Floppy from being accessed on startup, but under ver .15 it didn't take. (???)
Now under .17, there's no more floppy growling at me when Spybot S&D starts.

Ya just gotta love these guys!

Thanks again,
The Doctor

[Stijnson]

Hi, I'm new to this forum (and new to Spybot as well) and I have a question about the installer that comes with version 1.5.1.17. During the installation process I come to a screen that reads 'Extra tasks'. Under 'Permanent protection' I see 2 check boxes:

-Use Internet Explorer protection (SDhelper)
-Use system settings protection (TeaTimer)

First of all, what do these options do?
Secondly, does this mean Spybot isn't protecting Firefox (my main web browser)?

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

The resident section of Spybot - Search & Destroy is devided into two parts: the SDHelper and the TeaTimer.

The *Resident TeaTimer* is a Spybot-S&D tool perpetually monitoring the processes called/initiated. It immediately detects known malicious processes wanting to start and terminates them giving you some options how to deal with this process in the future: You can set TeaTimer to:

- be informed, when the process tries to start again
- automatically kill the process
- or generally allow the process to run

There is also an option to delete the file associated with this process.

In addition, TeaTimer detects, when something wants to change some critical registry keys. TeaTimer can protect you against such changes again giving you an option: You can either "Allow" or "Deny" the change.

As TeaTimer is always running in the background.


The *SDHelper/Immunize*

Spybot-S&D allows you to immunize your computer against some spyware. It currently offers three different immunities:

Permanent Browser immunity: Similar to JavaCools SpywareBlaster, this allows you to tweak some internal Browser settings to block the installation of known spyware (and similar threats) installers via ActiveX. Spybot-S&D is able to set all entries for those that are in its database to be blocked. If you want to distinguish, you should install SpywareBlaster.

Permanently running bad download blocker for your Browser: This is a second layer of protection. While the Permanent Immunity blocks installers by their ActiveX ID, this one blocks anything that should come through by different aspects.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot

[Stijnson]

Hi Spybotsandra, thanks for your quick answer. Some additional questions though.

1. Enabling all these options in Spybot doesn't affect normal web browsing?

2. Spybot functions as well with Firefox as with IE?

3. Can TeaTimer be compared to the Ad-Watch module in Ad-Aware?

4. "Permanent Browser immunity: Similar to JavaCools SpywareBlaster, this allows you to tweak some internal Browser settings to block the installation of known spyware (and similar threats) installers via ActiveX. Spybot-S&D is able to set all entries for those that are in its database to be blocked. If you want to distinguish, you should install SpywareBlaster."

What do you mean with 'if you want to distinguish'? Can I also use both for this (Spybot AND SpywareBlaster), or isn't this recommended?

[Stijnson]

Hi Spybotsandra, thanks for your quick answer. Some additional questions though.

1. Enabling all these options in Spybot doesn't affect normal web browsing?

2. Spybot functions as well with Firefox as with IE?

3. Can TeaTimer be compared to the Ad-Watch module in Ad-Aware?

4. "Permanent Browser immunity: Similar to JavaCools SpywareBlaster, this allows you to tweak some internal Browser settings to block the installation of known spyware (and similar threats) installers via ActiveX. Spybot-S&D is able to set all entries for those that are in its database to be blocked. If you want to distinguish, you should install SpywareBlaster."

What do you mean with 'if you want to distinguish'? Can I also use both for this (Spybot AND SpywareBlaster), or isn't this recommended?

Can anyone help me out with these questions? I hope so.