Spybot 1.5 Is Out

[Saint_Michael 3]

If anyone isn't aware about this but spybot has been upgraded and this time they included more browser support, so if your a firefox user and a opera user or if you both of them on your computer this is would be a recommendation to get the new update spybot software. Also for the vista users it has been updated for it as well, although I think spybot 1.4 works for it as well, I have to recheck on my computer to see If I installed it or not.

Heres whats all new in it

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System support
* Restored Win95 compatibility
* Improved Wine compatibility
* Fixed HyperThreading issues
* Improved 64 bit immunization
* Create Portable.ini in main folder to use app folder as data folder as well
* New warnings about missing admin rights on Windows Vista
* Support for multi-line bookmarks (IE 7 / Vista)
* New Immunization for Firefox & Mozilla
* Improved Immunization for Opera

Reports

* Added version info to bug report
* Include Errors.log now includes timestamps
* Improved Windows version display

Misc

* "Single excludes" now include filenames to be more unique
* Improved settings retrieval from registry (mixed installations)
* Fixed .reg import bugs
* Added support for automated removal of F/Ps from host lists
* Changed update UserAgent and Referrer
* Improved (Vista-compatible) support for fast user switching
* Updater now in separate executable file
* Vista manifests for assigning required rights to each application
* Deactivated list of active ports per process for Vista (incompatible)
* Fixed support for handle list on 64 bit systems
* Improved disabling/enabling BHOs
* New special error reporting for beta versions
* Support for Windows Error Reporting for public versions
* Fixed update-related crashes on Vista
* Fixed memory leaks (replaced Indy with Synapse)
* Vista-compatible MSI installer for those who like/need that
* Support for alpha tests on services and domains lists
* Added hundreds of new automated tests of internal functionality for prerelease QA
* Added TeaTimer hide icon (disabled) registry value in installer

Detection and removal of threats

* Improved PE detection all over the place
* New 64 bit detection all over the place
* Improved file removal methods
* Added optional custom RecoveryDir setting in Default.ini
* Automatic guessing of "Download Dir" folders
* Added support for renaming services before stopping/killing/deleting them
* Improved plugin support (example: current TCP/IP Plugin)
* Support for regular expressions nearly all over the SBI interface
* Much improved logic connections between files, registry and API detections (others would invent a new TLA for that *g*)
* Speed-ups through improved caches
* File version checking
* Authenticode checking
* Improved archives checking
* Faster fulltext checking
* Improved Sys Internals file location algo
* Improved hosts file location algo
* Added some more Opera 9 detection schemes

User interface changes

* Fixed "show more information" panels
* Implemented workarounds for misarranged buttons (including TeaTimer)
* Improved support for /allhives in tools section (inactive installation support)
* Fixed flag shown on shortcut bar after changes
* Fixed IE proxy import in wizard
* Changed "use proxy" button to checkbox
* Improved localization on simple dialogs
* Added option to add a proxy inside app if running on Win PE
* Improved localization of list of updates
* Added Firefox icon on Cookie exclude page
* Fixed bad keyboard handling on some exclude lists
* Fixed cookie removal selection problems
* New confirmation dialog for system restore points
* Changed default font to Tahoma
* Red cross (trademarked) replaced with green cross
* Made "Check" option unavailable during fix
* Process list now is a bit less eager on tooltips
* Improved "delay start" dialogs
* Now displays checksum for each result for better trackback of results
* Fixed "Ignore Products" column width problems on Vista
* Improved localization of product descriptions
* Adjusted wizard for new situation (external updater etc.)
* Fixed Tools snapshot comparison highlighting
* Made display of registry changes in results list less confusing
* Improved SDHelper dialogs and block/allow choices
* Update date format on info page now localized
* Displayed app version is now four digits (e.g. 1.5.1.12)
* (De+)Select all in list of old reports
* Improved Warning/Confirmation dialog IE plugin
* Configuration & Information dialog in IE plugin

and of course here is the link to the download section for quicker download action. So if you like spybot before now you get to like it even better.

[thugsmoke058 0]

uhm... what's SpyBot for? cuz i dont really know what is this

[Saint_Michael 3]

Spybot is pretty much the most effective way to protect against adware and spyware from being installed on your computer, although many anti-virus programs have this not all of them are effective. Been using spybot for over a year now and I haven't had no problems whatsoever with this software and how it works.

[Soviet 0]

Spybot is really awesome software and I'm using it more than 2years. It is much better as adware.But I'm using adware too.. Spybot is better because it can immunize bad files or what it is. And as Michael saidI haven't problems with it and no bad spywares was in my pc..

[Atthack 0]

Thanks for this, Not been a huge follower of Spybot in the past, because i've had either AdAware or some other program.Read a lot about it though. Seems good, thanks

[Will.Allison 0]

Sweet thanks for the update. I used spybot a few years ago and it worked pretty well. I use adaware right now and that seems to help, too. Why do you think spybot is better than adaware?

[thugsmoke058 0]

woah... let me use it too hm... i think this would be nice thanks

[Saint_Michael 3]

Yesterday I installed it on my vista computer and it runs nice and smooth with no major problems, except of course with access to the internet to download updates but of course thats normal to begin with.