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i forgot to say that if i left the dns client running when using spybot hosts mvpshosts and hphosts then everything freezes on my computer, it slows down a bit when using only spybot hostsfile too

OK all is good here so far, installed the RC1 over the beta 2 just now and found the things I had questions about working OK now.

1. the screen now opens at the main S&D program screen

2. my disk properties box now opens fast, like it should with the S&D tab removed. this is good cause it wasn't useful anyhow.

As for the speed of scan, its fine by me, I'm used to "slow" lol, I'm even slower than Bill Slowsky, the turtle lololol at least he has DSL, hell I'm still on dial up , smirks. but it seemed to finish the scan pretty fast.

I only have one other deal, which I guess the ones with DSL or cable don't even notice, but why does the program always re update the data base at a new install? I always update to the latest but when installing over another version it never seems to see it and always re downloads the main base again.

Also I still would like a new GUI, or maybe someone has a new skin that looks more like a modern AV type look with 3d bubble buttons.

anyway good deal, it fixed the few items I wanted.

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great if spybot would have right click scanning and was able to scan all drives like the dvd drives.

Here's a history on right click scanning :)

Scan single files/folders
Explorer propery sheet plugin: option during installation
Speed up single file scan (SDFiles)

thanks pepimk:)

maybe the full spybot scan also should scan cd/dvd drives for optimal protection.

Lol, what would it scan on a Linux liveCDvD? :)

Seriously .. would another tab in <app>/Settings/Ignore products specifically for *only* checked items make sense? That way casual users need not comb the other tabs or the rather lengthy All products tab for the possibly few checked products ignored. Sometimes a product may be selected to exclude rather than a single detection and it is an eye-crosser to run that checked excluded/ignored product down on the Ignore products page as-is.

In a future version would it be possible to make Spybot default to using the "Run as Administrator" option in Vista like some other programs do, without having to set it manually in the "Right Click" Properties menu?

The reason we did set it as "regular" was that Microsofts Certified for Vista requirements did expect it this way. Since we decided against this certification since it would have limited Spybot-S&D's protection against malware trying to crash it, we're not bound to those requirements, though we of course try to keep the useful majority of them.

One of our directly-after-1.6 steps will be even more separation of modules; the system internals will be a small separate tool, reducing one thing that would require admin rights, and the most important part, the fixing, will most likely also become a separate (well-integrated) file so that we might get to a point where it's no longer required to have the main window need admin rights (and you would e.g. need them only when the fixing part is called).

Another release? I thought after rc 1 it would wait till the final was ready? Well anyway I downloaded it and installed, all is still OK, and I can't see anything changed from rc1 to rc2.So you gona hold up now and release a final and no more RC's?

BTW can't the program hold the last updates? instead of going back and re downloading them again after a install.

And keep that popup box warning about adaware off once you click "ignore".

I have the free version of that just for the heck of it and have never had any conflicts or problems using it with S&D

Am running v1.6 and so far love it. I have it scheduled to update, immunize, and scan at night. If I leave a browser open, it hangs there with the message that open browsers must be closed or immunization may not work. Suggest that you give the user the option to automatically close all open browsers so immunization can complete. The ability to turn this on/off would allow users to choose.

Thanks,
Kenny

You can specify /silent (or the "bigger" /taskbarhide) on the command line to skip this warning :)

Seems like I'm facing another problem PepiMK. I'm sure, if this has been mentioned before (if it was it was regarding 1.5.2.20)... It seems to me that TeaTimer (1.6.0.30) is using around 50 CPU (I'm not sure if this is how you say it) when Windows loads my account and uses around 40MB of memory.

I took a look again after one hour after bootup and TeaTimer is still consuming the same amount of resources as it did during bootup.

I'm not sure if this is a problem for others, but it is for me.

50 would be 50% CPU time probably :)

Have you tried the 1.6.1.31 TeaTimer from this thread? Download link is in post #21. Also includes a .reg file to enable a verbose debug mode, in which case Resident.log would tell you where exactly it hangs. Would be very helpful if you could test that :)

Thanks PepiMK, I'll consider it when I have the time.

I have suggestions on how we can improve program updates:
I already made a new thread, but i thought i would add it here so no one can miss it.
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=32318

I noted that many users also post about not liking the clean temp files feature that spybot asks about upon launch of the program. I think there should be a question in future releases (upon first launch of spybot) that asks the user if they want the temp file clean enabled by default upon launch of spybot. I also think it should say, note: disabling this option will make scans slower then if this option was enabled. Also, i think you should be able to change that option in the settings page as well in case the user changes there mind. :)

What do you think?

I did add a feature request entry for this :)
http://forums.spybot.info/project.php?issueid=278

thanks very much PepiMK :)

You can make a tools as standalone executables.
Like that you can keep more tools open. And if you can, you can add on Spybot-S&D Main Menu the Tools button which shows all availble Tools.
It could make a better look if all icons are changed. Some icons (Skins, Hosts, action buttons and especially Ignore Cookies) have never been changed.
But, there is something that I don't like. In 1.6, when you click on Update, it automatically looks for updates. I want to update manually.

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....In 1.6, when you click on Update, it automatically looks for updates. I want to update manually.....

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ya same here, when i click update on the left side of the program, it searches automatically. This makes it harder to select beta updates for download, etc. In the older spybot program, when you clicked search for updates, it searched automatically which is fine. But then if you wanted to select other options beforehand such as beta updates, clicking the "update" button on the left side panel would give you options and then you would press search. The right click teatimer option "search for updates" searches automatically, along with the button "search for updates" in the spybot program. Those are fine. But i think "update" found on the left panel of the spybot program should allow again like it did in previous versions, to click beta updates and then be able to click search instead of it searching automatically.

Hope that makes sense!

http://forums.spybot.info/showpost.php?p=199211&postcount=101

I don't know what the framework is, that is required for ClearType... but I'm just hoping it can be implemented.

Can Tahoma be used instead of MS Sans Serif font (I think that this feature has been suggested) ?

dont you think this needs to be updated PepiMK? ;)

http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=24183

Oh, indeed :oops:
Will do in the next days, at the moment I'm a bit slow, just started to learn to type Dvorak ;)

One more suggestion: Organize scan results somehow like this:

¤ - Adware: 3 entries

¤ - Zango: 2 entries

¤ - Executable File
C:\Program Files\Zango\Zango.exe (3,5 MB)

¤ - Temporary File
C:\00Zango.tmp (67,7 MB)

¤ - Zippy: 1 entry

¤ - Tracking Cookie
Internet Explorer (Administrator, 3rd party,22.12.2004., 05:35:24)

¤ - Trojans: 1 entry

¤ - Psyme: 1 entry

¤ - JavaScript File
C:\Program Files\XYZ\script.js (173 KB)

¤ - Usage Tracks: 3 entries

¤ - Logs: 2 entries

¤ - Text Document
C:\Program Files\log.txt (1,5 MB)

¤ - Log File
¤ C:\00setup.log (7 KB)

¤ - Cookie: 1 entry

¤ - Cookie
Internet Explorer (Administrator, 1st party,04.02.2006.,21:35:24)

¤ - Temporary Files: 2 entries

¤ - TEMP Dir.: 2 entries

¤ - Temp file
C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\log.tmp (1,5 MB)

¤ - Log File
C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\tmp.dat(7 KB)


Found 10 entries. (Instead of Found 10 problems.).

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Oh, indeed :oops:
Will do in the next days, at the moment I'm a bit slow, just started to learn to type Dvorak ;)

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Thanks, its ok, you do what you can. :) I can understand that you are a very busy person. Thanks for updating it!

why not have a feature that sets a kill bit on vulnerable activex controls until a patch is released by microsoft.

blues:

If I understand your request properly, you can do that within Internet Explorer. In Internet Explorer, click the Tools button, click Manage Add-ons, and then click Enable or Disable Add-ons.

i was also thinking about other activex controls that is on the computers, for example a script on a website that does something with an vulnerable activex control that is on the computer. we can not disable all activex controls on the computer with the internet explorer add-on manager.

When spybot detects or deletes a file, write the file's date created (or date modified) in the log file (and possibly on the screen during the removal stage when the user is prompted) - this would be helpful in determining how long the computer has been compromised. In my case I had a keylogger and wanted to know how long it had been there.

Good idea :)
Added to project tools: Display file dates (possibly more) in log

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One more suggestion: Organize scan results somehow like this:

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The whole point of the temporory files thing is that the scan is faster if that folder is clean. Showing them as part of the scan results does not really do any good I'm afraid ;)

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dont you think this needs to be updated PepiMK?

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The new download link thing will hopefully avoid outdated links in the future, we just have to remember to link there only after new uploads ;)

If that is not OK, then ask for temporary files when you click on Scan button (This is already suggested). And if user answers yes, then scan for temp. files and show results like in an attachment.

Can SDHelper block scripts and some images in IE like Adblock and NoScript in Firefox?

Can you add an option that user can manually add entries as ignored (Spybot-S&D), allowed or denied (TeaTimer & SDHelper)?

And can SDHelper redirect a bad web-site to a page which shows that Spybot has blocked a site which has been visited?

Hello :)
I have some suggestions :)
1) In a further release I think it would be good to entegrate the RootAlyzer into spybot. Of course I think rootalyzer needs some improvments :) For ex: It can't delete some files. And it gives lots of false pozitives. For ex: The crawler toolbar of spyware terminator and all of its files are detected as rootkits.

2) I would really like to see the old eraser module back.

3) I know that some people don't like the Gui but i think it is very good. I wouldn't like it to be changed. But even if you will change it I think it would be nice to keep the old gui and give the users a choice to select the gui to use. I don't know if this possible.Even if it is possible I am sure it would be a hard thing to do.

1. Those aren't false positives in RootAlyzer: RootAyzer shows only suspicious, not identified items ;)
A few are documented, others are on the whitelist, if you know more that shouldn't be shown, please post details in the RootAlyzer forum, and we'll update it :)

2. The "Secure Shredder"? It's still there, just as a separate module. Run SDShred.exe, though the link inside the app hould open it as well.

3. Modularization, see my blog, makes separation necessary.
Don't be afraid of a too-fancy custom GUI though; the 2.0 screenshots on the bugtracker are not up-to-date, but the keep-it-simple of them will be kept.

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2. The "Secure Shredder"? It's still there, just as a separate module. Run SDShred.exe, though the link inside the app hould open it as well.

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No the eraser :) The one like the unlocker to erase the files that are in use and cannot be deleted:) We have discussed it before with you :) See here:
http://forums.spybot.info/showpost.p...1&postcount=21
http://forums.spybot.info/showpost.p...9&postcount=27

And by the way I will write the safe items to the rootalyzer forum also:bigthumb:

Ah. that one, sorry :)

It's clearly planed to return, with the new concepts supporting it better. SDECon32.dll, the experimental new context menu plugin (in the form of a dll handler to avoid the opening on unknown files) already has the code to list it in the Spybot-S&D file context submenu if the corresponding file exists :)

Please change the way the updater checks for installed updates. Right now it only uses the downloaded.ini, but if it gets corrupted (happened to me) or accidentally deleted, or if you manually install some updates, it will tell you you need to download/install updates you already have to begin with and sometimes it even wants to install files that are older than the installed (TeaTimer). Best solution would be to check the version info of .exe and .dll files and add version info to include files.

Manually installed updates (at least through spybotsd_includes.exe) should update downloaded.ini, but you are right of course; this will probably be covered by this feature request.

Would be nice to see Safari and Google Chrome add to the list for Immunize.