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What happened to this program?

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alexolog

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Version 1.x was a sweet little program. I used to invoke it manually, and it stayed out of my way when it was needed.

Enter version 2. It runs background services that take resources from my underpowered machine, tries to do some "internet protection" that I don't need, restarts those tasks and services after I close or kill them, pops up access violation dialogs when I run "startup tools" ... In short, it feels like malware.

Is there a way to only run it on demand, and have it use ZERO resources otherwise?

Thank you.
 
Hello Alex,

You can disable the services you do not want.

Please run the Start Center and switch to advanced mode.
Now start Settings with a rightclick and choose "run as administrator".

Then open the tab "System Integration“. Here you can uninstall the "System Integration“ services. Click "Apply“ and "OK“ afterwards.

Now go to the tab "System Services". Here you can stop the "System Services".
Make sure the checkboxes down under are set deactive for "Active after every reboot".
Click "Apply“ and "OK“ afterwards.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot
 
Hello Sandra,

This is exactly what I was doing before.
I also manually stopped the "Spybot-S&D 2 Scanner Service" and set it to "manual", but when I check the next day, it is running again.

Please advise.

spybotsandra said:
Hello Alex,

You can disable the services you do not want.

Please run the Start Center and switch to advanced mode.
Now start Settings with a rightclick and choose "run as administrator".

Then open the tab "System Integration“. Here you can uninstall the "System Integration“ services. Click "Apply“ and "OK“ afterwards.

Now go to the tab "System Services". Here you can stop the "System Services".
Make sure the checkboxes down under are set deactive for "Active after every reboot".
Click "Apply“ and "OK“ afterwards.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot
Click to expand...
 
*** ALL integration is turned off ***

1) The moment I start IE, the service is running again.
2) some 15 s&D DLLs are injected into explorer.exe
3) SpybotSD.evt is loaded by services.exe

My question is simple:
Is it possible for SS&D to have zero memory footprint until I MANUALLY invoke it, and after it has finished running?

If so, how do I achieve that?
If not, why not?

Regards,
Alex.
 
Hello Alex,

Did you perform these actions as admin?
Did you uncheck the checkboxes down under for "Active after every reboot"?

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot
 
Can I have an answer please?

These are my settings:
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This is the services screen after turning the services off:
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When I revisit it after a couple of hours, the scanning service got turned on again, without me doing anything, and the "internet scanning" THAT i DO NOT WANT is also on.

Here's the SpybotSD crap that is currently loaded WHEN EVERYTHING IS SUPPOSEDLY TURNED OFF:
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This stopped to be funny some time ago.
 
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