Spybot being bad?

[Lv4]

moxnix hrm, those same four are listed as ignore in my new install of s&d also. I downloaded it from the Download.com mirror if that matters to anyone.


I also noticed that my IE is completly shot now. I can't load a single page, so I checked out my security settings. It had been yanked up to High and was blocking everything. I reset that, but something is still going on with cookies (even though I enabled first party/session cookies, and prompt on third party). I didn't load the IE helper either... but I did note that they have a specific listing for Opera plugins listed directly beneath the IE helper part which was interesting.


hrm, I'll tweak with the s&d settings some more and I'll play around in IE to find out what happened there.

[nihil]

Hi,

I found the same four on two machines that I have just updated. I unchecked them and re-ran SpyBot, but it didn't fid anything.

Is it possible that someone was testing the check/uncheck function and missed those four?

I have seen people leave debugging software in production apps before

[cabletech]

The old version of spybot had this problem. the new one doesn't, but there are 3 look-alike progs of spybot running around that may also change your hosts files.

[bluthund]

The old version of spybot had this problem. the new one doesn't, but there are 3 look-alike progs of spybot running around that may also change your hosts files.

?????
Please elaborate....
I d/l'd version 1.3 from download.com. Where might you get one of the lookalikes? Are there any clues or telltale signs that distinguish a lookalike from the original? Where did you get this information?

Awaiting reply eagerly....tap, tap, tap

[gore]

http://www.safer-networking.org/

That's where I downloaded mine at.

I'm starting to feel better so hopefully tommorrow when I wake up I'll be better and can do more with this.

[moxnix]

Originally posted here by gore
http://www.safer-networking.org/

That's where I downloaded mine at.

Thats where I got mine also.....the spybot s & d homepage.

[bluthund]

I did a bit of sniffing around at "net-intergration"(Spybot S&D forum), and people are aware of the settings in the Ignore List. They basically recommend to uncheck the items for the time being. I am not entirely sastisfied as there seems to be no good explanation as to why some items are checked, but I'm confident that I have a valid version of Spybot S&Dv1.3, so I'm not going to worry too much for the time being.