Recent content by ken turbine

Recently about 50% of computer starts result in the Scanner Service not starting up despite the 'Active after every Reboot' being checked . The only way this is noticed is when the Spybot Proxy refuses any connections. This means going into the settings, restarting the Scanner Service manually...

I am running a dual boot XP/Win7 installation and on using Spybot on the revently installed Win7, it picked up Montera.toolbar. I moved the infection to the Quarantine, re-started and re-scanned. It re-appeared fully formed on the re-scan. I have now purged the Quarantine of both instances and...

As this is a suitable season for it, I would just like to thank all the staff and helpers at Spybot for their skill and patience in providing the tools to protect me and others from our collective ignorance about malware. Having just installed Firefox as a backup to IE, following the recent...

I suspect that I may have come across a false positive in either the detection, fix or reporting with the following setup Operating System : Windows XP sp3 : virus check by Avast! : Firewall ZoneAlarm Browser and Version :Internet Explorer 7 Version of Spybot S&D : 1.3 Date of the latest update...