Download Spybot 1.3 RC4

Spybot – Search & Destroy is a free program with which you can remove spyware, dailers, loggers and other types of malware from your system, but also prevent spyware. Release Candidate 4 of the 1.3 series has recently been released to download† How to use Spybot to remove spyware can be found in the Security & Viruses forum on GoT. The changes from the previous release candidate are as follows:

• “Settings – Ignore products” doesn’t show anything. Problem recognized. Problem fixed.
• Shows old updates. Problem recognized. Will set MaxBuild flag of current updates asap to avoid updates for 1.2 shown in 1.3. MaxBuild now set to 20040413, meaning that all previous versions that need them will still show them.
• Cookies fileset shows zero entries because cookies are detected through a helper file, not the fileset itself. Additionally list the number of detected products. Count now shown correctly
• Startup tool is showing only first existing database entry, which could lead to misinterpretation of entries. Fixed – now if multiple entries for the same value exist, they will all be listed.
• Removal of Bastard trojan folders. Looks like it was readonly/system/hidden attributes set to each folder. Spybot-S&D is now cleaning those before removal for folders as well.
• Monitor TeaTimer activity after terminated process. Found problem with scanning files on network drives… did let TeaTimer monitor a million app starts without a crash this night… previously a thousand were enough to hang the system…
• UpdateCredit. Done
• Avoid multiple instances of Spybot-S&D (old code was removed for 2003 compability)…
• Make TeaTimer dialogs localized.
• Add all domains that Immunize adds to the Restricted Zone to the Cookie-Block-List as well. (correction: restricted zones already includes cookie blocking)
• Let user choose during installation if TeaTimer and SDHelper should be installed.
• Cookie immunization for 9x/ME. Fixed by doing this in HKEY_CURRENT_USER as well. (update: is now done for all users)
• TeaTimer and SDHelper checkboxes seem to be misbehaving sometimes.