Auto-scan; file extensions

[pudding.man]

Hi,

New here.

W2k sp4 desktop, Spybot S&D 1.6.0.31.

Since I updated, I can't open a .pdf with Adobe reader. I get instead
Spybot auto-scan.

I've run Settings and checked file extension exclude for .pdf. Seems
to have no effect.

I really, Really, REALLY don't need Spybot taking over my intended
file extension associations.

How can I get Spybot to treat extensions as in older versions (or
otherwise circumvent this silly, silly problem)??

Thx,
Puddin'

[Tom.K]

Try to find a setting in Adobe Reader which associates .pdf extensions.

To remove the shell extension, you should reinstall Spybot-S&D but uncheck the next checkbox: "Explorer File Scan Plugin (in File Context menu)"

This has effect on all files which are not associated.
Shell Extension adds itself as a command.
When you run any non-associated files, Spybot-S&D just scans it. And if you right click on the file, you see that "Scan with Spybot-S&D" is a default command. I don't like that.

[md usa spybot fan]

pudding.man (Puddin'):

Right click on a .pdf file and look at the context menu. If the "Scan using Spybot-Search&Destroy" option is the first option in the menu, it will be executed by default if you double click on that type of file. You what "Open" as the default.

To fix the problem and still keep the "Scan using Spybot-Search&Destroy" option in the right click context menu try this suggestion posted by matt Humphreys in:

• Spybot and doubling clicking file
  http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=32011

If you would like to eliminate the "Scan using Spybot-Search&Destroy" right click context menu option entirely from the context menu on all file types, see this post by Zer0 Voltage in:

• Spybot 1.6 questions
  http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=30678

[pudding.man]

Right click on a .pdf file and look at the context menu. If the "Scan using Spybot-Search&Destroy" option is the first option in the menu, it will be executed by default if you double click on that type of file. You what "Open" as the default.

Correct.

To fix the problem and still keep the "Scan using Spybot-Search&Destroy" option in the right click context menu try this suggestion posted by matt Humphreys in:

• Spybot and doubling clicking file
  http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=32011

1.) Thanks for your attempt to help.
2.) It doesn't work for me:

Open any folder
select 'Tools'/'Folder Options'
select 'File Types' tab
scroll the extensions until you find the one you're after and click to select it
You should see a button called 'Advanced'

There is no button called 'Advanced'. Which I find really curious,
as he claimed W2k (which I am running). When he says "Open any folder", I assume he means using Win Explorer.

Any ideas?

I *would* like to keep the "Scan using Spybot-Search&Destroy" right click context menu option. It's all I ever needed.

3.) Spybot is rising higher and higher on my list of "software likely to be soon forsaken".

Spybot is German-authored, like Nero? Vas Ist Los??

Thx,
Puddin'

[PepiMK]

Ireland, but German origins

I did add an issue to the bugtracker here.

Not quite sur where this is coming from. I played through a few of virtual machines, but not one shows this behaviour. Might be an OS specific thing whether the first in list will e assumed as default? XPs and Vistas are still asking the user when no default "verb" is defined.

As to whats up... could write down a list of excuses, from RSI and Dvorak learning myself to all the legal trouble the bad guys and even legal competition is creating... but well, would I be here at this time (GMT!) if we wouldn't be busily working?

[pudding.man]

I did add an issue to the bugtracker here.

Thanks for the intent.

Can you edit it so it reads "File scanner should not ..." instead of "File scanner should net ..." :-)

Not quite sur where this is coming from. I played through a few of virtual machines, but not one shows this behaviour. Might be an OS specific thing whether the first in list will e assumed as default? XPs and Vistas are still asking the user when no default "verb" is defined.

Approximate content comprehended: 50%

I noodled around, set the file assoc. back to it's default (Adobe had set it differently), "Advanced" magically appeared, and I was able to apply the fix suggested by md... (thanks hereby rendered).

If everything on my desktop system required the infinite silliness that this issued required, I'd flip the desktop in the trash and shine up my abacus (note no smiley).

As to whats up... could write down a list of excuses, from RSI and Dvorak learning myself to all the legal trouble the bad guys and even legal competition is creating... but well, would I be here at this time (GMT!) if we wouldn't be busily working?

Approximate content comprehended: 10%

a.) Given the install default that created this problem, I am now convinced that Spybot doesn't want me running their software. My long-term plans will be designed to comply.

b.) The (easy) fix damn well should've been in Spybot and not in "Windows".

Thanks,
Puddin'

[PepiMK]

Typo corrected

Will have someone with a notebook that can reproduce the problem at the office tomorrow, because we can't.

50%: means I tested on a bunch of machines. "verb" is the Microsoft term for actions available for files. The default "verb" is "open", another known verb is for example "print". Spybot uses the verb "sdfiles". So as long as Windows handles "open" as the default verb, Spybot should not come up by default.

As to where the fix should be - ence we get hold of the underlying reason for this behaviour, there will be a fix in Spybot. A small thing in the weekly updates that will correct this.

10%: in case you didn't recognize, that was a joke basically meaning that we could come up with a list of excuses that you wouldn't understand, but instead don't want to use excuses and work hard instead.

But: as to what created this problem, I am not sure if it really was Spybot-S&D. So far, I would guess that Spybot was the first installed app to encounter this problem. We won't know until we've looked at a few registry dumps (of "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\").

What exactly did you mean by the changes Adobe had made?