threat descriptions survey

Do you read the threat descriptions included in Spybot?

  • Yes and they are very useful.

    Votes: 95 43.6%

  • Yes, but they are only sometimes useful.

    Votes: 93 42.7%

  • Yes, but they are useless.

    Votes: 3 1.4%

  • No, I haven´t found them yet.

    Votes: 27 12.4%
  • Total voters
    218
The entry information will vary depending on the found issue.

Nice to see another Spybot-SD member. :cowboy:
 
I voted yes and they are useful, but what I think I meant is yes and the they are interesting - they don't get me a beer or cook my dinner.
 
Yes.

I do,but I have to admit I enjoy the security aspect of the computer game more than allmost any other area.
The problem is many people just want to feel protected so they are able to go about their gaming,or surfing or work without worry.
Their attitude is similar to the old farmer who"s Doctor asked him "do you understand the treatment plan we are working out for you?"
The olds Macho replied "hell,Doc as long as you you understand it."
There are computer types like that,and there are the get a second oppion,join a suport group,google it a thousand times types.
As a charter member of the second set,I LOVE the feature!
 
I'm still learning to use Spybot S&D, but this is a cool feature I'm going to have to take a look at. I like knowing something about whatever it finds besides just "whatever.trojan" or "blah.worm" I know what those are, but detail is good- what it does, how much of a threat it is (tracking cookie versus, say, Vundo)
 
Do you mean like the 'rating' of the entry? Tracking cookies are basically harmless, although they can become a irritation. Spybot-Search&Destory does not currently offer the 'level rating' feature.

However, you can find out what Spybot searches for during a scan.
 
my system is scanned so often with spybot and 2 a/v 3 times a wk. barely anything gets through cept through my own naivety. i use threatfire, avg and spybot. the descriptions are good but not as comprehensive or in depth as threatexpert/threatfire
 
hampster said:
The thing about them is that the entries are so long, I can't always read the whole path. That is what makes them less useful.
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Yes!

Often the dialogue window pops up asking if I want to accept or deny a
particular change and the path isn't completely shown and the name of the
application attempting to make the change isn't shown, so it's hard to decide which answer to give

In addition, the Info box has NEVER shown me any information about the file in question, after years of using Spybot...is it the vestige of some earlier feature that didn't make the cut?
 
I don't really think the description is a vetige of an earlier feature, or even the pup ups... The pup ups are maybe small... but the descriptions, are pretty informative... but they are not usefull at all, just interesting :P

So, my vote is Yes, and they are usefull, but really... i don't think why we could find that usefull, as far as we don't start looking by ourselves for those spywares, or even contacting the company that develope them... it is just informative, and when i don't find that, I try to look on the english description that likely have it.

Anyway, and stop talking about it... It just need to be continued, and I like it.
 
No Information available 90% or higher

90+% of the time the box says:

- "No information available"

they're usually useful when there's something in the box
except when it tells me a change I made to the system could be caused by an infection.
I always remove the stuff I don't use from the Start Menu Through the "Taskbar & Start Menu" Properties dialog and GPEdit.msc.

ie. I compress my XP Start Menu to:
________________
> Programs
> Settings
> Help and Support
> Run
________________
> Log Off ...
> Shut Down

and my 2k Start Menu to: (basically the same)
____________
> Programs
> Settings
> Help
> Run
____________
> Log Off ...
> Shut Down
 
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