Spybot-S&D 1.6, beta 1

[Rosenfeld]

I think I may have found a problem with the English.chm help file.

Can someone please try to reproduce this:

Open Spybot-S&D, click on Help (in the menu bar), and select Help.

Once the help interface opens, click on the Search tab, enter something in the keyword field (I was trying "explorer"), and click on the "List Topics" button.

For me, on two separate XP SP3 systems, this results in a permanent Spybot hang (both the help interface and the program). Nothing ever appears in the topics list, the mouse pointer stays an hourglass, and Windows reports the program is not responding. I have to manually force it closed - after which I get one of those error report prompts.

On the same systems, this didn't happen with version 1.5.2.20.

Anyone else see this?

I can confirm this on XP SP3. Two event logs:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Hang
Event Category: (101)
Event ID: 1002
Date: 07/06/2008
Time: 15:00:03
User: N/A
Computer: DJDRRM3J
Description:
Hanging application SpybotSD.exe, version 1.6.0.25, hang module hungapp, version 0.0.0.0, hang address 0x00000000.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 48 61 6e 67 ion Hang
0010: 20 20 53 70 79 62 6f 74 Spybot
0018: 53 44 2e 65 78 65 20 31 SD.exe 1
0020: 2e 36 2e 30 2e 32 35 20 .6.0.25
0028: 69 6e 20 68 75 6e 67 61 in hunga
0030: 70 70 20 30 2e 30 2e 30 pp 0.0.0
0038: 2e 30 20 61 74 20 6f 66 .0 at of
0040: 66 73 65 74 20 30 30 30 fset 000
0048: 30 30 30 30 30 00000


Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Hang
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 07/06/2008
Time: 15:00:16
User: N/A
Computer: DJDRRM3J
Description:
Fault bucket 789846428.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 42 75 63 6b 65 74 3a 20 Bucket:
0008: 37 38 39 38 34 36 34 32 78984642
0010: 38 0d 0a 8..

I've checked that the english.chm file is unblocked.

[Matt]

@PepiMK:

ich kann das genannte Problem von Zer0_Voltage und Rosenfeld bestätigen. Spybot hängt sich bei mir komplett auf.

Kann es sein, dass sich zudem zwei kleine Fehler im Sprachpaket eingeschlichen haben? Zwei Buttons werden im Sprachpaket "Deutsch" in englischer Sprache angezeigt. Ist das ein Bug oder so gewollt? Dazu gibts die Zip-Datei.

Meine Geschwindigkeitsverbesserungen gibts hier:
http://forums.spybot.info/project.ph...id=248#note972


Grüße,
-Matt-

[Rednose]

When is the 2.0 version sceduled ?

Greetz, Red.

[Asus L3500TP]

Hello,

Some button are not translated in french :



See you !

[FAUST]

Huge improvement.
1.5.2 with HOSTS 33:01
1.5.2 without HOSTS 10:12

1.6 with HOSTS 20:23
1.6 without HOSTS 5:34

My HOSTS file has 145000 entries if you're curious about the huge differences.

Two small things, 1.6 always starts on the settings page. Can I stop this?
And can I get rid of the hint of the day?

[Rednose]

Hostfile scanning takes most of the time here too. Maybe that should be improved

Greetz, Red.

[spy1]

Not seeing much in the way of hard figures in this thread for the actual difference in scanning speed, so I'll give you mine:

Keep in mind here that the time I'm giving you is the time from which I click on the "Check for Problems" button until the final results of the scan shows up. (This is on my wifes' computer, a Win XP Home, SP3 64-bit w/ an Athlon 64 Processor 3800+, 446MB of RAM):

v.1.5.2.20 (full scan, including usage tracks): 19 minutes

v.1.6.0.25 (full scan, including usage tracks): 3 minutes

An absolutely GREAT job, my friend! (I can do the same thing for my own computer, too, if you like). Pete

[Rosenfeld]

Spy1,
FYI, if you look at the bottom of Spybot (below the progress bar), when the scan is completed it shows the time taken in (). That is the time you might report.

[spy1]

Rosenfeld - Thank you, but I already un-installed the old versions from both computers. The stop watch method'll have to do.

Here's the results on my computer:

v.1.5.1.19 - 19 minutes

v.1.6.0.25 - 5 minutes

That's on a Compaq Presario, Win XP Pro SP3, 32-bit AMD Athlon Processor 1.3GHz, 1 GB RAM

[Zer0 Voltage]

Platform = XP Pro SP2 (under VMware Workstation 6.0.4 build 93057) with nothing else running

Hardware = 1.6 GHz Mobile AMD Sempron 2800+ with 384 Meg RAM and a 5,200 rpm IDE hard drive

Total Data = 3,488,441,394 bytes (within 6,187 dirs and 19,293 files)

Full Scan Times (both tested with the 2008-06-04 detection updates):

v1.5.2.20 = 20 minutes 17 seconds

v1.6.0.25 = 4 minutes 2 seconds

That would make the new beta 5 times faster! Or 503% faster if you prefer.