Spybot-S&D 1.6, beta 1

Thanks !just changed my registration to match my donation email . so jerry66 is now nas66 .
keep up the great work . I've been using spybot since the begining , first time i paid for it , not the last though . never had a credit card so no paypal .
so far no problems with 1.6 .
 
I have just installed and tested SSD 1.6.0.25 and find it a great improvement: many congratulations!

For the record, my system is running XP (Home edition) SP3 on a 1.7Ghz P4; 512 MB memory; Avira AntiVir free, Comodo Firewall Pro, Memory Firewall, and BOClean.

I have used SSD 1.5.2rc1 (=1.5.1.19) since January, averaging 27.5 minutes per scan, although increasing slightly over time, presumably because of added detections, although a change from AVG to AntiVir may also contribute. I tried 1.5.2, but was not pleased: it took around 50 minutes per scan (only two were done, though).

With SSD 1.6.0.25, my first scan was 19.5 minutes and about 4 minutes of that was scanning bookmarks (see below). Very nice improvement from 1.5.1.19 and a dramatic one from 1.5.2.20.

Now a suggested option: I have four browsers on my system (IE7, FF2, Opera 9.5, SeaMonkey) and go to some trouble to keep their Bookmarks/Favorites synchronized. There is surely no need to scan them all and, as noted above, it would save around 15% of the scan time to scan only one. So an option to select one browser only would be very nice.

I would also suggest making the Hint of the Day optional, except that others have already done that. I vote with them.
 
You guys have outdone yourselves.

My average scan times have gone from about 50 minutes to under 15. Wow! Well done (1.6 Beta 1 vs 1.5.x)

Regards,
Charles
 
I'll "remained" you, too.

Sirs, madams, and whomever else:

A pox on you, fie, out, out damned "remained"....

If one allows 1.6.0 to remove temporary files, and if the process finds that some of said files are in use and, therefore, cannot be removed, 1.6.0 has the temerity to report that said files are "remained."

"Remain" is an intransitive verb, as in "I remained" appalled when I saw that strange message in 1.6.0.

I remain your obedient grammar corrector,

Me, myself, and the remainder of whatever remains.
 
See! That guy *points at Always Confused* has delayed beta 2! :clown:

Thanks for the correction :) If I understood it correctly, it would have to be "... files are in use and remain."?
And while I'm at it, I noticed that I partly wrote temporary files, and in other cases Temporary Files. Updated that as well to lowercase in all instances.

Looking into one final DelZip issue test now, then I'll compile beta 2 :)
 
I'd say that delaying beta 2 was hard work, but as causing trouble is one of the few things at which I am good....

"...are in use and cannot be removed" might be even better.

I'm glad you caught the inconsistent use of upper and lower case.

(I'm not going to take up space writing about how much faster 1.6 is than previous versions, as that has already been done by others. Therefore, this parenthetical addition is not visible, and shall so remain.)
 
I was using 1.5.2 and decided to download 1.6.0.25 and test it out to see if it was better and i was not disappointed. The scan time was cut in half and i have had no problems with it. Thanks very much
 
Spybot 1.6 Beta 1 - Minor typo in installation "Confirm" dialog.

During the installation I received the following "Confirm" dialog.

Confirm

Spybot - Search .Destroy has detected that you have the following products installed. This may cause incompatibilities; for more information, click Yes to visit our website, Ignore to now longer show this warning, or just Cancel.

LavaSoft AdAware

[Yes] [Cancel] [Ignore]
Click to expand...
I believe the "now" should be "no".
 
Small problem in 1.6 beta

when using the update button on the left side in doesn't give enough time to be able to choose the beta updates or the other languages update
 
1.6 beta disk tab problems

I have had to uninstall Spybot S&D twice since it is hanging up my system due to the huge amount of time needed to scan the files by the "sdfiles.dll" tool. How do I turn this off and scan system manually when I need to since I have 1-2 TByte (terabyte) drives and it takes over 15min to even get a properties menu?

I have unregistered the sdfiles.dll, but that means i have to stop using Spybot. Is there something in the install i can set that will allow me use the new Spybot 1.6 without having it scan my files on all drives and all folders? I don't need that level of "babysitting" and the performance hit is huge.

TIA
Nanouk
Windows XP SP2
HP AMD Dual core, 4GB memory
400GB internal drive
3-2TB Western digital USB2.0
Spybot 1.6 beta (temporarily uninstalled)
 
I'm not quite sure what you refer to.

SDFiles.dll is a single file on demand scanner, which should not do anything unless you open up the corresponding tab on the properties menu. Just opening the properties dialog itself should not cause any delay.

It is also just registered with files, not with drives, so the size of drives has absolutely nothing to do with the time it'll take.

And why would unregistering SDFiles.dll mean that you have to stop using Spybot-S&D? SDFiles.dll is purely optional?

Are you doing a Select All on all files on the root level of a drive, and selecting properties then? That would be a very... sub-optimal... approach ;) As I wrote above, it's for checking single files, if you want to scan the whole system, the main app is a much better choice (especially since SDFiles.dll does not deal with the registry and various API stuff obviously).
 
More on sdfiles.dll performance

I guess I don't understand fully why when I open a properties menu on a folder that has only 3 items, it opens almost immediately, but when I open a properties menu on my C drive, it takes almost 5 minutes and when I click on the Spybot S&D tag, there are thousands of files with status of ...waiting... ?
When I uninstall Spybot S&D, the sdfiles.dll stays around and registered with the system (regsrv32 /u in safe mode gets it finally).

Without Spybot installed, everything returns to normal with drive property menus opening up immediately. What am I missing?

Don't get me wrong, sir, I LOVE SPYBOT! I have used it for years and have donated every chance I get. I am not denigrating your fine product, but trying to understand its operations so I can continue to use it fine features.

Is there anywhere you can point me to how these internals are suppose to operate so I can be a bit more knowledgeable on their use and features without having to take up your time?

Thanks in advance,
Nanouk
 
(both betas) 'lost' K-Meleon Immunization?

Posting in this thread since I uninstalled beta2 ..

Somehow, the SSD16beta(s) 'lost' the Immunization for K-Meleon .. possibly due to a Registry cleanup I did after uninstalling two previous KM versions prior to installing the present K-Meleon v115. At first the KM Immunization was merely not there in the GUI on the Immunization page (..\Immunization.ini had all 4 KM Imz in the text). No joy in getting it back on the Imz page - either Registry or absolute path was different (KM keeps profile in parent dir if single user, so .. one of the previous versions was multi so /that/ profile was in a subdir of WINDOWS rather than parent dir as now). How does SSD detect for Immunizations of profiles? I'm a bit confused as Opera also does the parent dir profile arrangement and that's fine as far as Immunization goes (properly detected and Imz'd both my 8 and 9 profiles), Firefox is in the usual WINDOWS subdir (only one version and profile) & MSIE is /wherever/...

Undid the remaining Imz for both betas on their GUI pages (2nd only had one FF 'remnant') and uninstalled both, then cleaned out 'remnant' files+dirs. Then did a fresh install of beta1, updated and *still* no K-Meleon Imz. Oh well, why I ask for how SSD detects profiles for Immunization - it /was/ oki for awhile with KM, but now seems to not do as it did previously.

current Imz and scantime (beta1 on WinME):
Immunizations=72755 scantime=11:51
(previous Imz w/ K-Meleon in list, 99202)
 
K-Meleon has a lot of changes behind it already, might be it's different again ;)

Early versions used <$PROGRAMFILES>\K-Meleon\Profiles\profiles.dat as the index file for profiles. Quite bad of course.
Soon afterwards, it went to <$APPDATA>\K-Meleon\registry.dat, which is more the Mozilla/SeaMonkey style (plus <$APPDATA>\Roaming\... and <$APPDATA>\Local\... for Vista of course).

Just guessing, do you see a file <$APPDATA>\K-Meleon\profiles.ini now? That would be the Firefox profile scheme that more and more Mozilla clones are using.

Or did they switch to the FF3 base already? But that should be supported in the stand-alone immunization demo then.
 
nope

Since the new install was for single-user (not multi-profile), the profile is in the parent dir C:\Program Files\K-Meleon\Profiles\Default\********.slt dir - kind of like Opera seems to work (parent dir). No K-Meleon subdir in either ..\WINDOWS\Application Data or the ..\All Users\Application Data dir now. No profiles.ini file at all for K-Meleon now, even though there *is* a profiles.ini for Firefox in ..\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox dir for my FF v20014

Yah, KM is an underfunded project but I like it :) , afaik they're staying a bit off the FF path but still gecko
 
I don't quite see this as "single-user", more as "single-admin-user", since a single user might still be (should be) a restricted user account, which would have no write access there ;) Unless single-user does not only mean just one person using it, but one person with just one account... well, anyway, I'm drifting away from the compatibility issue ;)

What would be important are the files you see in C:\Program Files\K-Meleon\Profiles\ then. Next to the Default subfolder you mentioned, are there any files in there? The profiles.dat I mentioned? Or a registry.dat file?

Profiles themselves could actually be anywhere if the user moves them, so this one profile control file (profiles.dat, registry.dat, nsreg.dat, profiles.ini, ...) is the important one Spybot-S&D uses to locate profiles.
 
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