Scans in 6 seconds, what's wrong?

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Scans in only 6 seconds, what's wrong?
My knucklehead friend (good friend) has this this problem on 3 different computers. I don't have this problem. He swears he's getting SSD from legit locations. He's very knowlegeable with software. I Googled this & also searched this forum. Any ideas why his scans only take 6 seconds? Because I believe the usual is 2-5 minutes. Mine takes about 2-3 minutes. Thanks.
 
Hello,

Perhaps his scan is limited.
Please run Spybot - Search & Destroy and switch to "Advanced mode" via the menu bar item "Mode" and select "Settings" --> "File Sets" in the left bar. There, please right-click somewhere into the list and choose "select all available checks".

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot
 
Try updating with the manual update file. You can manually download and execute an update file from safer-networking.org:
  • Detection updates 2006-02-17 - product description
    md5: A2A7A6A3D7F8079EEDEE205173368947

    This updates the detection rules. Only needed if you do not want to use the update function integrated into Spybot-S&D.
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If downloading and executing that file does not work, I suggest that you uninstall and reinstall the program.

Uninstall Spybot-S&D 1.4:
  • Go to Windows > Control panel > Add or Remove Programs > Locate "Spybot – Search & Destroy 1.4" > Remove.
  • Using Windows explorer, verified that the following folder has been delete. If not, delete it:
    • C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy
  • Make sure that all the registry entries that Spybot-S&D added during installation are removed, there is a .reg file available on the safer-networking.org WEB site that can do that. See the following article:
  • Delete the Configuration.ini file
    • The Configuration.ini file is stored in one of the following folders:
      • Windows 95 or 98:
        C:\Windows\Application Data\Spybot - Search & Destroy
      • Windows ME:
        C:\Windows\All Users\Application Data\Spybot - Search & Destroy
      • Windows NT, 2000 or XP:
        C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Spybot - Search & Destroy
Reinstall Spybot-S&D 1.4:
  • Execute the spybotsd14.exe installation program again.
  • Do not change the default installation path of:
    • C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy
  • If you did not update during the installation, make sure that you update before running a scan, as follows:
    • Go into Spybot > Update
    • Click "Search for Updates"
    • Check everything found
    • Click "Download Updates"
 
There was another thread where someone was also having a few second scan. The picture he showed of his Advanced/settings/file sets showed that he did not have many of the search items.

http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=2462

Check the thread out-if this is your friend's problem,then the info provided by MD USA could help-as it seems it helped that person.

Hope it works.

Never mind-see above.
 
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