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My 1.5.1.14 version on one computer immunizes against 97,000 plus problems. My 1.5.1.17 (beta) immunizes against 70,000 plus. Why the difference??

sbsdtools15beta

is available at softpedia (1MB) in addition to spybot 1.5 beta (7MB). What are the tools? They don't seem to do anything. Said it installed teatimer but my teatimer doesn't work...

from tray and processes list. Why??

I strayed and went to Spyware TErminator for a while to see the results. Well, it lets a lot of spyware by. :-(

So, I went back to Spybot 1.5 but Teatimer keeps showing at taskbar menu and then...

Is it safe to use the real shield protection of Spyware Terminator (Crawler product) together with Teatimer??

If I have to shut Teatimer off, does that also turn the other Resident protections...

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I ran Spybot again and the same Microsoft.Windows.Redirected Hosts warning comes up. I suspect this is a false warning but . . . ?

Is this a false positive?

Windows.RedirectedHosts
Threat: Hijack

Description
Hijackers often use the hosts file to redirect websites to other ipadresses, commonly antivirus vendors get...

THanks a million. I suspect that one or two trojans might have got by because my hosts were gone. Could that be?

The long lists of hosts files is missing. I tried to remove and then add and it says "system path can't be found...." (rough paraphrase). I uninstalled Spybot and reinstalled the 1.4 version. Still...

I really like Comodo Firewall and have added their Boclean 4.23 (a new acquisition from another company). How does it differ from Spybot teatimer?

As I understand it, Boclean only takes action...

Latest edition.

I shut down teatimer several times and then it resolved itself but a trojan got through on my computer.

I downloaded update to Spybot yesterday and now Teatimer is not working on boot up. I get a "Systems Protection Error." When I click on more info. it says Teatimer.exe is the culprit. I can't do...

I downloaded update to Spybot yesterday and now Teatimer is not working on boot up. I get a "Systems Protection Error." When I click on more info. it says Teatimer.exe is the culprit. I can't do...

I downloaded update to Spybot yesterday and now Teatimer is not working on boot up. I get a "Systems Protection Error." When I click on more info. it says Teatimer.exe is the culprit. I can't do...

19,000 "bad" web sites listed (I read about this in _Smart Computing_). Any way to add this list to Immunize??

To get Spybot into greater use, GUI is important. Not for computer geeks but for the rest of the world whom we also want to protect, no? If they are not protected, we are less protected. GUI is...

I've downloaded the 1.5 beta after running 1.4 for a while. I want to know what are the new features of 1.5??

*Heuristic detection (?) -- completely new?
*Processes added -- HOW DOES THIS WORK?...

I just selected all updates and 1.5 flashed across and then I rebooted. Now Teatimer is blacklisting 27,000 plus processes whereas before it was 1,000-plus!!!

That's a BIG change. Is this 1.5? Or...

Trend Micro was the ONLY anti-spyware program to detect those HOST files as spyware. When I removed the HOST files, Trend Micro found no spyware.

Two assumptions:

1. I doubt Spybot allows...

And how safe is it? (I know some software vendors mark their's as alpha, beta 1, beta 2, etc.).

I have had problems with Windows XP's awful schedule tasks program. After some searching, I found the ideal program and it is free:

http://tinyurl.com/ycmfl9

Used it for several weeks and it...

I'm not clear: Is 1.5 intended ONLY for Vista? I know that the Vista version will have added anti-malware protection, but what of those of us who just bought XP computers (because Vista is going to...

Would this conflict explain the following (I posted to another area by mistake):

I enabled the host file protection and when my Trend Micro scanned it searched nearly 3,000 hosts files and...

Does WD check for items beyond Teatimer? You mentioned Teatimer is good for the items it checks, but what are they? Registry changes? What does WD check?

I use Comodo Firewall which should...

I have not found Teatimer to be particularly difficult to use. When I am making changes and expect a pop-up, I quickly look at the teatimer description and allow the change. Otherwise, I don't. Is...

Right now, you can only shred targeted files. Lots of programs shred "free space." I don't know if it improves the performance of the computer, or if it is more secure than defragging but....

I enabled the host file protection and when my Trend Micro scanned it searched nearly 3,000 hosts files and labeled 107 "suspects" and high privacy threat.

When I asked for more info. about each...

The program I mentioned screwed up my OS (kept rebooting). I unclicked various startups one by one until I found it was Primary Response that was doing it.

However, I was running teatimer at the...

Thanks, Bitman! I suspected that would be the case. Better to just keep a backup of 2d or 3d antispyware programs to scan occassionally.

BTW, WD has done very poorly on more tests (very...

Yes probably Firefox cookies (I haven't used IE in a long time).

I hope 1.5 is compatible with FF because while FF is a LOT safer it isn't foolproof.

They were tracking cookies. I'll put up next time.

To get rid of the message, I went to both IE and FF and deleted all cookies -- but I shouldn't have to because I have Spybot, right?

Stay...

I run a recheck after fixing problems and there they are again! Why?

at the same time? Will WD's shield conflict with tea timer? How does it work differently?

I reactivated IE 7 but simply don't use it. You can't really get rid of IE but in the Disk Cleanup you can uncheck it (don't know what that means in practice, if it is still on your computer!).
...

see their description: http://www.sanasecurity.com/products/pr/index.php

Yup, false positives are always a problem with heuristics (or behavioral analysis, whatever you want to call it).

They...

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2073044,00.asp

Will 1.5 have heuristics?

I'm just going to wait and see what 1.5 has in store for FF users. I haven't used IE in ages, unless a program "popped it up."

http://accs-net.com/hosts/faq.html#19

(6.) Why doesn't the Hosts file work with my proxy settings?

Some proxy servers can not be bypassed, unfortunately, and will not work with the Hosts file...

Darn. I usually bookmark when I find sites but there was one that said someone using DSL router would have to go through a lengthy work around to use the 127.0.0.1 approach. Basically, the DSL would...

I have a link on the desktop to Windows Update (manual).

"sdhelper only works with Internet Explorer"

Ouch! So immunizations AND SD-Helper don't work with other browsers (I use ff)?? Plus I can't use hosts because I have a DSL router, so that leaves me...

Alas, I am among the masses who have not only switched to Firefox but deactivated IE! So, if Spybot immunizations are for IE only, I will add them (probably not too many MB?) but they won't do me...

FYI: I read up and HOSTs file protection won't work with my LAN ISP in effect (DSL). That info. was from mvchosts site.

Oh, well.

According to another site:

"1st, as far as Spybot's Immunizations go, Spybot has the capability of immunizing your computer against a number of infestations that frequent the internet. Once you...

First, thanks! I'll check these all out.

On Spyware Guard:

The last program date I found was 8/03.

It mentions Internet Explorer but not Firefox on the main page.

Does Spybot do the...

It has been a year or more since I used Spybot and now I'm back after flirting with other antispyware programs.

The last time I installed it, Spybot claimed 2,000 or so immunizations and...

Keep in mind Webroot came out with this but...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128660-page,1/article.html

I'm going to use a dummy computer and leave WD on and either a) surf the web; and/or...

I'm much more cautious than most of the people at my university. It amazes me how unprotected people are -- old virus detectors that are never updated, no firewall, no antispyware ("I thought the...

If people use Spybot as their #1 antispyware program (for prevention and scanning), what do people use as their #2 (no pun intended)?

It seems almost everyone has more than one antispyware...