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I've tried updating Spybot Free this week and the updater isn't finding anything. Has something gone wrong? The latest files are from 20 May 2025:

I just spotted a reference to Spybot v3 in the FAQs: https://www.safer-networking.org/support/spybot-3-faq/ Is there any further news other than that it will be ready sometime this year? Will there be any opportunity for beta testing? Thanks

Has anyone running Spybot Free got any definition updates this week? I've run the updater a number of times and Spybot says that I'm up to date, but when I check the details, the last updates were added on 6 April 2022. Thanks

Whereas Spybot automatically detects all the Firefox profiles that I've set up, it only detects the default profiles that I have for Chrome and Edge (Chrome based) and ignores all the other profiles. Is there a way to get Spybot to detect the other Chrome and Edge profiles? Thanks

I've just installed Spybot 2.8.67.0 free version. The installer forces you to install the Security Centre Service because there is no option to leave this out. But this means that you can't run Windows Security scans from the Windows Explorer context menu or from the command line. If you try...

Is Spybot still using the Distributed Beta Testing Service https://download.spybot.info/SDDT/ I happened to look at it recently and the last test that ran on my PC was in November 2018. Am I missing stuff, or has Spybot stopped using it? Thanks

The MD5 for Spybot 2.7 Free is shown as c46099e1df46092ad8c761a07cf9f1a9 on https://www.safer-networking.org/dl/ However, I've just downloaded it twice from the Spybot locations, e.g. https://updates2.safer-networking.org/spybot1/spybotsd-2.7.64.0.exe and I'm getting an MD5 of...

I've just updated Spybot to v2.6.46 and while checking that the versions were up to date using the Help - About function in each tool, I got these errors when checking in the System Scan and Immunise tools: There's no problem for the Start Center, File Scan and Update tools, but there may be...

Error during update - "Adware-C.sbi-20161012.cab" does not match expected hash I'm getting this error when trying to get this week's updates. Could you please fix this. [00:00.000] [i] Update started... [00:00.014] [+] Updating Service is active. [00:00.027] [.] Trying to retrieve update info...

The forum is using an obsolete cipher suite:

When I downloaded this week's updates for v1.6.2 I got a message encouraging me to upgrade to v2.4. Does this imply that v1.6.2 won't be supported for much longer?

As happened a while back http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?70656-Definitions-update v1.6.2 isn't getting this week's definitions. Could someone please fix this. Thanks!

I run Chrome with different profiles using the --user-data-dir option - see http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/ As far as I can tell, Spybot doesn't scan these profiles, though it seems to scan my default Chrome profile. Is there a way that I can get v1.6.2 to scan my...

According to http://www.safer-networking.org/about/updates/ OpenCandy was added to the PUPs list on 9 October 2013. However, when I scan http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/files/freefilesync/v5.23/FreeFileSync_5.23_Windows_Setup.exe/download (which Malwarebytes says contains...

After installing Spybot 2.0.12, Windows won't start. I get the Windows Starting screen but then the screen goes black, apart from some messages that flash on the screen so fast that they can't be read. This is with Windows 8 Release Preview 64 bit running in a virtual machine. Spybot v2.0.11...

Usability - there are lots of windows that don't have <Close> or <OK> buttons but rely on the user clicking <X> in the top right corner to close them. An example is: I'd prefer to see <Close> or <OK> buttons. Wording - the wording in the immunisation warning needs updating to include...

A few bugs that I've discovered in beta5. This is all on Windows XP SP3 Home 32 bit. 1. I have immunisation scheduled to run at system start up. With the default command line options for SDImmunize.exe (/immunize /silent), SDImmunize.exe keeps running (using 0 CPU) when the immunisation is...

The scheduled update for Spybot has just run. The update appeared to complete successfully. However, the scheduled task includes the /autoclose option, but the updater window didn't close until the run time limit that I had on the task (10 minutes) expired. I'm pretty sure that the updater...

Every time I shut down my PC or log off (Athlon XP 1900+ running XP SP3, so fairly ancient, but still reasonably usable) I get the Windows "End Program" message for Spybot Tray. After a while the message says that the Spybot Tray is not responding and I then have to click on the option to end...

I've just installed v2.0.6 (Beta 4) and the automatic updating still isn't working. See http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=63323 and http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=63537&p=410394 for past reports. This is on a Windows XP SP3 PC. SDUpdSvc.exe is running according to Task...