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The immunization total seems to be stuck on 15492 for quite a while now, despite regular updating. Closing the browser and running as administrator do not help. I am running the current version of Vista. I am wondering if Spybot has dropped support of the immunization function. Thanks.

My OS is Vista Home Premium. If I run Spybot as an administrator by right clicking on the desktop, there are at the moment 57,241 items shown as immunized in total. If I do not run as an administrator, there are only 41,069 items shown. Why does this happen, and what is the significance in...

I had some problems with the installed version (would not stay set in Advanced mode, etc.), so I uninstalled through the Control Panel and downloaded a new version, which is more current than what I had installed. This did not work properly, so I did another uninstall/download cycle. Now Spybot...

I recently discovered that I cannot seem to set the Advanced mode permanently. I log on, and Spybot is in Default mode. I set it to Advanced, and it will stay that way as long as the computer is on, but when I shut down and reboot, it is back to Default mode. I wonder if it is possible that...

I get quite a few alerts above the system tray about 'Registry changes allowed' based upon my whitelist. These have proliferated as I have added applications to the startup list and so on. There is no reason for me to see them as they are not dialog boxes, and I have already made the changes...