PepiMK
2008-06-05, 20:30
Eight years ago, Spybot-S&D originally started off as a very fast anti-spyware scanner, detecting some 30 small things, and you could watch it finish in under a minute.
Today, a full scan applies more than 600,000 tests, and you can watch that number grow weekly on our update list (http://forums.spybot.info/index.php?page=updatehistory). Handling such numbers obviously is quite a bit different, and while we've tried to adjust to that with each version, a full scan might still take half an hour currently. Since this was one big major complaint issue, we decided to integrate parts of the new file scanner designed for a future 2.0 release and optimized for modern malware fighting, and got you a major push in speed now - that same scan will now take five to six minutes only, being about five times as fast as 1.5 was!
If you want to enjoy that speed and know a bit about beta testing, head over to our beta forums and get the first beta (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=29109)! If you prefer to wait for a thorougly tested public release, we hope to get around to that quite soon.
Oh, and one more thing... there's more up for 1.6: a second big issue we hear often will be addressed, so stay tuned!
More... (http://www.spybot.info/en/news/2008-06-05.html)
Today, a full scan applies more than 600,000 tests, and you can watch that number grow weekly on our update list (http://forums.spybot.info/index.php?page=updatehistory). Handling such numbers obviously is quite a bit different, and while we've tried to adjust to that with each version, a full scan might still take half an hour currently. Since this was one big major complaint issue, we decided to integrate parts of the new file scanner designed for a future 2.0 release and optimized for modern malware fighting, and got you a major push in speed now - that same scan will now take five to six minutes only, being about five times as fast as 1.5 was!
If you want to enjoy that speed and know a bit about beta testing, head over to our beta forums and get the first beta (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=29109)! If you prefer to wait for a thorougly tested public release, we hope to get around to that quite soon.
Oh, and one more thing... there's more up for 1.6: a second big issue we hear often will be addressed, so stay tuned!
More... (http://www.spybot.info/en/news/2008-06-05.html)