Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.4 Released - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

Slavakion · 06-01-2005, 08:25 AM

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/news/2005-05-31.html

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It takes us a long time to get satisfied, but we've finally reached the point where we are ready to release version 1.4 of our anti-spyware solution Spybot - Search & Destroy. Here are some of the new features it offers:

First native multi-installation scanner
On PE boot CDs as well as on any system with multiple installations of Windows 2000 or later, Spybot-S&D 1.4 is able to scan the other installations as well, including the registry. From what we know, Spybot-S&D is the first anti-spyware solution that offers inactive registry scanning as a native feature.

Speed boost-ups
Spybot-S&D 1.4 should work noticably faster than 1.3 during scans. And if you still don't like to wait, you can play our easter egg while scanning.

Improved tools
We've improved the Tools section that Spybot-S&D offers in advanced mode - the process list now offers a list of open network connection per application (Windows 2000 or newer only), helping you to quickly identify which applications are local and which do use connections to the outside. Our detection mechanisms have also been updated, from detecting and cleaning services over protocol filters to the afore-mentioned scanning in inactive installations registries.

Graphics remake, and more
We've replaced the old home made icons with a bunch of great graphics provided by the guys at Yellow Icon Studio to make the user interface look smoother. But while this is highly visible on the surface, there have been more than 104 important changes underneath.

Download
We're notifying mirrors currently to make the newest version available. Please look here to find a place where you can download 1.4.

We hope you enjoy 1.4 even more than our previous releases!

Good to see an update from them. They had been pretty quiet for a while...

And some mirrors here.

cyrnel · 06-01-2005, 08:41 AM

Thanks Slavakion. I'd almost given up on those guys.

superiorrain · 06-01-2005, 08:52 AM

Thanks for the heads up. Always good to know, first time i put spybot on my computer and run a scan, the amount of crap on it was crazy, i'm sure after the first scan my computer double in speed.

Redlemon · 06-01-2005, 10:24 AM

Hey, it's catching advertising cookies in Firefox. I don't think S&D1.3 did that. Cool!

blahblah454 · 06-02-2005, 12:46 AM

Thanks for the links, getting it now

and holy crap! When I ran it it came up with something like 350 found items! Wow.

06-01-2005, 08:41 AM	#2 (permalink)
cyrnel Adequate Location: In my angry-dome.	Thanks Slavakion. I'd almost given up on those guys. __________________ There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195

06-01-2005, 08:52 AM	#3 (permalink)
superiorrain Psycho Location: London	Thanks for the heads up. Always good to know, first time i put spybot on my computer and run a scan, the amount of crap on it was crazy, i'm sure after the first scan my computer double in speed. __________________ "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke

06-01-2005, 10:24 AM	#4 (permalink)
Redlemon Devoted Donor Location: New England	Hey, it's catching advertising cookies in Firefox. I don't think S&D1.3 did that. Cool! __________________ I can't read your signature. Sorry.

06-02-2005, 12:46 AM	#5 (permalink)
blahblah454 Let's put a smile on that face Location: On the road...	Thanks for the links, getting it now and holy crap! When I ran it it came up with something like 350 found items! Wow. Last edited by blahblah454; 06-02-2005 at 09:12 PM..