Hi, I've had Spybot installed on my system for a long time, and always ran it manually, when I felt like it.

Recently, it has started running automatically (about once a week) and although I've no real objection to that, I'm intrigued to know how it's doing it, and why it has started doing it!

If I go to Settings/Scheduler - there are no scheduled scans

I have Mike Lin's "Startup Control Panel" installed and looking there I cannot see any entry for Spybot in any of the normal registry places which might cause it to autorun.

My feeling is: if I can't work out how Spybot runs, how can I work out how to stop anything else running that I DON'T want?!