Updates and Firefox

[william24]

The last couple of weeks, in the area where all my updates are shown, all it says is "detection rules" as opposed to a list of trojans, etc. I just recently installed Firefox as my default browser, outside of the immunize feature, am I still getting full protection? Thanks.

[md usa spybot fan]

william24:

Updates in the last month plus (excluding ßDetection rules and languages other than English):

2007-07-18:
Detection rules: Update - !Most up-to-date detections (483 KB) - 2007-07-18
Detection rules: Malware - !Updated base malware detections (267 KB) - 2007-07-18
Detection rules: Trojans - !Updated base trojan horse detections (257 KB) - 2007-07-18
English descriptions - English target descriptions file (213 KB) - 2007-07-18
2007-07-25:
Detection rules: Update - !Most up-to-date detections (494 KB) - 2007-07-25
Detection rules: Dialers - !Updated base dialer detections (115 KB) - 2007-07-25
Detection rules: Keyloggers - !Updated base keylogger detections (47 KB) - 2007-07-25
Detection rules: Malware - !Updated base malware detections (269 KB) - 2007-07-25
Detection rules: Trojans - !Updated base trojan horse detections (259 KB) - 2007-07-25
Immunization database - !Updated Immunization database (546 KB) - 2007-07-25
English descriptions - English target descriptions file (215 KB) - 2007-07-25
2007-08-01:
Detection rules: Update - !Most up-to-date detections (532 KB) - 2007-08-01
Detection rules: Malware -!Updated base malware detections (269 KB) - 2007-08-01
Detection rules: Spybots -!Updated base spyware & adware detections (133 KB) - 2007-08-01
Detection rules: Trojans - !Updated base trojan horse detections (258 KB) - 2007-08-01
English language - Updated English language file (24 KB) - 2007-08-01
English descriptions - English target descriptions file (216 KB) - 2007-08-01
2007-08-08:
Detection rules: Update - !Most up-to-date detections (516 KB) - 2007-08-08
Detection rules: PUPS - !Updated base possibly unpopular software detections (92 KB) - 2007-08-08
English descriptions - English target descriptions file (219 KB) - 2007-08-08
2007-08-15:
Detection rules: Update - !Most up-to-date detections (525 KB) - 2007-08-15
English descriptions - English target descriptions file (220 KB) - 2007-08-15
2007-08-22:
Detection rules: PUPS - !Updated base possibly unpopular software detections (92 KB) - 2007-08-22
Detection rules: Update - !Most up-to-date detections (531 KB) - 2007-08-22________________

As you can see the nature and/or packaging of the updates vary from week to week.

It should also be noted that the following single download/update from 2007-08-22 actually contained updates to approximately 15 different files:
Detection rules: Update - !Most up-to-date detections (531 KB) - 2007-08-22
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Conclusion –Most likely nothing amiss.

If you really want to check, go into Spybot > Update > Show Log and verify that list against the above (they are in a different format but you should be able to determine if you are receiving all the updates).