Helloween Edition - beta 1

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This is the full installer for all the bugs fixed and new features implemented since 1.5.1.15.

Helloween Edition just stands as a temporary name for an update we want to be available this month :)

The installer has been updated a bit: InnoSetup 5.20 now (no idea if it fixes the floating point problems), I've improved all the localization stuff and had to move a few things around, but in general everything should be available in every language in the installer now, and I've also included the Explorer context menu option "Erase with Spybot" and the separate shredder.

If you want to test, feedback on those project tools entries here that didn't receive any testing feedback would be nice :)
 
Nice..I'm installing it now. Hopefully it will fix that lag problem. It's taking a while to install the new definitions...
 
SSD 1.5.1.17 rocks!

I downloaded and installed the halloween Edition Beta1 this afternoon and gave it a whirl. I am happy to report that it totally removes the "slow loading" issue: the initial progress bar appears on my 1.7 GHz P4 in around 4 sec now instead of more than 4 min(!) before. The scans are significantly faster than in 1.5.1.15 and even somewhat faster than in 1.4 All this is excellent.

One comment, however: I had some trouble turning off the "usage trace" scanning. It would be nice if this feature could be made more prominent. I do not want such because I manage cookies using CCleaner and having to deal with cookies selectively in more than one place (browser, CCleaner, SSD, ...) is a pain.

The shredder option in the context menus is an interesting touch. However, this should be made optional: make an option parallel to those for TeaTimer,
selected perhaps in the installer and/or in the SSD settings menu. Again this is a feature I personally do not need since I have SecureDelete and Privacy Guardian, both of which already are in the context menu.

Looks like a winner from here! Good work!
 
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Oh, the context menu option is actually not the shredder, but a tool that allows you to remove (for example malware) files even if they're not removable through the Explorer, because they're associated with a running process, loaded as a module or as a file into another application, etc..

But you're right, both additional tools should be optional. I had in mind to add options to the installer, but due to those unexpected changes I was making to the localization of the installer, I somehow didn't make it in time ;)
 
As a novice could someone please explain how I go about installing this new beta .17? Do I uninstall version 1.5 that I currently have with the .16 beta patch first and then download and intall this new Beta as a full install?
 
bugs...

Windows Vista Home Premium
32-bit Operating System
1014 MB RAM
Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU T2450 @ 2.00GHz 2.00 GHz
-----------------------------------------------------

1. When i installed the Halloween Edition i selected download updates, unticked languages and blinduser. I got this error

Unable to execute file:
C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\SDWinSec.exe

CreateProcess failed; code 740.
The requested operation requires elevation.



2. When the steps window popped up, with the 1 out of 7 steps displayed i pressed 'Next step' or whatever its called and it went straight to the 7th step, where did the other 5 go?



3. Why is it when i selected Update there was available updates and one called 'updated immunization database' when i selected download updates immediately in immunization.



4. When i clicked immunize after all the updates i just downloaded, the immunization and English files and startup entry, i clicked immunize and i got this dialog error
'You are missing administrator rights to perform this action.
If you need to do this, please run this application elevated as administrator.'
The problem is i went to control panel - user accounts. And my User account is the only one there and it says it is an administrator and password protected
e.g

heath
Administrator
Password protected


I than pressed ok and it went to the immunize screen in SB and the scanning to see what was immunized and what wasn't started and i had 0 immunized and so i pressed immunize and i got a different elevated administrator rights warning but it than immunized 26975 items and35941 remain unprotected. Whats going on here?



5. Why is English and Esperanto under languages, i chose English, i love Esperanto but i didn't install it or choose it, its a universal language but default it why?
 
I've been told that it's Halloween, not Helloween. And that for an Ireland fan like me :sick: Well, see the name as a tribute to Helloween, which I like to listen too too often it seems ;)

5. Well, I guess since language files are so very small that Esperanto is kind of equal to English... perhaps ;) Offered as a default alternative to English because many speakers of roman (latin) languages might be somewhat able to understand it a little bit.

The administrator rights thing is probably FAQ 042 (a new security concept on Vista), but I'll read and answer more carefully tomorrow :)
 
Was this beta suppose to fix the firefox spybot immunization problem too? I installed and still only detects IE :(
 
Well you see the thing is, it could be my setup becuase it worked fine before then all of a sudden it stopped detecting firefox along with spywareblaster, i have no clue, i just thought it was a problem with vista and spybot.
 
Could be the Vista issue but im not 100% sure, it worked before but not now and nothing changed, execpt i update software as usual when new versions come out, ive never added anything new, and yeah i still have the problem.
 
whats the go?

I took a long time to type my bugs, please read

Windows Vista Home Premium
32-bit Operating System
1014 MB RAM
Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU T2450 @ 2.00GHz 2.00 GHz
-----------------------------------------------------

1. When i installed the Halloween Edition i selected download updates, unticked languages and blinduser. I got this error

Unable to execute file:
C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\SDWinSec.exe

CreateProcess failed; code 740.
The requested operation requires elevation.



2. When the steps window popped up, with the 1 out of 7 steps displayed i pressed 'Next step' or whatever its called and it went straight to the 7th step, where did the other 5 go?



3. Why is it when i selected Update there was available updates and one called 'updated immunization database' when i selected download updates immediately in immunization.



4. When i clicked immunize after all the updates i just downloaded, the immunization and English files and startup entry, i clicked immunize and i got this dialog error
'You are missing administrator rights to perform this action.
If you need to do this, please run this application elevated as administrator.'
The problem is i went to control panel - user accounts. And my User account is the only one there and it says it is an administrator and password protected
e.g

heath
Administrator
Password protected


I than pressed ok and it went to the immunize screen in SB and the scanning to see what was immunized and what wasn't started and i had 0 immunized and so i pressed immunize and i got a different elevated administrator rights warning but it than immunized 26975 items and35941 remain unprotected. Whats going on here?



5. Why is English and Esperanto under languages, i chose English, i love Esperanto but i didn't install it or choose it, its a universal language but default it why?
 
@sims39: is this different from the previous page?

1. Vista should ask for elevation when starting the installer. Did it do that? If not, that's indeed a bug in the installer (in that case we might rename it to spybotsd-setup.exe or something, because Vista recognizes "setup" as part of the filename as an installer as well).

2. The others inbetween are conditional ones; e.g. there's one to allow you to import the Internet Explorer proxy settings. If you don't have a proxy set up in Internet Explorer, it isn't shown at all.

3. The immunization database isn't part of the updates downloaded during the installation. Maybe we should add it there though, good point :)

4. Again, that's already answered on the previous page, see FAQ #042 I linked there.
On Vista, even as an administrator, you have to tell the computer you want to do an administrator operation.

5. Also already answered. Should've copied only the open parts ;-p
 
one bug remaining

Vista didn't ask for that elevated thing before install, i installed it, updates downloaded immediately than when i clicked finished and spybot launched i got that error i mentioned in bug number 1
 
Clean install on XP SP2. Running well. Now only 3 seconds for the GUI to show (faster than ever :-).
 
Halloween Beta Fixed at Least One Prob

Halloween Beta solved the slow load prob. :bigthumb: Thanks.
But...I believe I read that there was no immunization update with the beta .17...is this true? Because I thought I saw it there and was really happy that it worked; but if there wasn't one, then I feel pretty dumb thinking that this fixed the immunization problem when we don't know that yet.(Please inform.)

Finally, I've never run a beta while there was a final available, so how does the update work now? If I just do a standard update, won't that just update v1.5.1.15 and negate the Halloween beta? I'd really appreciate an explanation on that too.

Thanks.
 
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