This is a very very sad day for me. After using trusting, using and promoting SpyBot Search & Destroy for many years, considering it to be the finest product with no other alternatives to use in it's place, I have now changed my opinion.
It is sad when the software no longer removes the threats and infections like it used to, even worse when they sponsor a forum with "experts" to help remove what spybot no longer can, and the "experts" quit the task part way, which somehow renders the infected computer with even more problems than when I first contacted the forum and began the process.
What had been simply an annoying problem with browser window opening on some web page when search was done, fake error messages, and fake multiple browser window openings (even somewhat amusing but not destructive) has become nearly an unusable computer now with more problems due to the incomplete assistance from the "expert".
Simply put, my computer is now worse off for having visited the spybot forum and following the "expert" advise.
So sadly, I will no longer use spybot, certainly no longer trust spybot (and certainly not their "experts") and will do anything but promote the use of spybot. You didn't loose just one software user here, you lost one has been loyal for years (I'm guessing at least 5 years, seems like many more than that) and anyone I ever speak to about computers will know to stay away from spybot.
... it is as if the evil empire has taken over spybot. Did microsoft buy spybot??? Sure seems so.
Later...
It is sad when the software no longer removes the threats and infections like it used to, even worse when they sponsor a forum with "experts" to help remove what spybot no longer can, and the "experts" quit the task part way, which somehow renders the infected computer with even more problems than when I first contacted the forum and began the process.
What had been simply an annoying problem with browser window opening on some web page when search was done, fake error messages, and fake multiple browser window openings (even somewhat amusing but not destructive) has become nearly an unusable computer now with more problems due to the incomplete assistance from the "expert".
Simply put, my computer is now worse off for having visited the spybot forum and following the "expert" advise.
So sadly, I will no longer use spybot, certainly no longer trust spybot (and certainly not their "experts") and will do anything but promote the use of spybot. You didn't loose just one software user here, you lost one has been loyal for years (I'm guessing at least 5 years, seems like many more than that) and anyone I ever speak to about computers will know to stay away from spybot.
... it is as if the evil empire has taken over spybot. Did microsoft buy spybot??? Sure seems so.
Later...
