Spybot Search and Destroy 1.5.2.20

Publisher's Description:

Spybot Search and Destroy searches your hard drive for so-called spy- or adbots; that is, little modules that are responsible for the ads many programs display. Many of these modules also transmit information, including your surfing behavior on the Internet. If it finds such modules, it can remove them. In most cases the host still runs fine after removing the spyware/adware.

Another feature is the removal of usage tracks, which makes it more complicated for unknown spybots to transmit useful data. The list of last visited websites, opened files, started programs, cookies, all that and more can be cleaned. Supported are the three major browsers Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator, and Opera.

Spybot Search and Destroy has the following other editions available: Spybot Search and Destroy (Beta).

Latest Changes:

• Improved compatibility
• More effective detections
• New functions
• Fixed: the immunization sometimes needed to be applied twice before sticking
• File shredder is back
• Fixed: impossible to remove entries from the user blacklist in the Internet Explorer plugin
• Long starting time of Spybot-S&D 1.5.1 fixed

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Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	Undesired Username	Jun 23, 2008
Version:	1.5.2.20
Roj is correct and it's even worse than he lets on. Spybot is outdated not just in terms of its defs but in its entire approach and technology. The latest trojans and rootkits laugh at this dinosaur and anyone who continues to rely on it, as do I.
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Reviewer:	SaferNetworking	Jun 6, 2008
Version:	1.5.2.20
@roj: you seem to "the author" is a single person (listed by name only here on BetaNews is a bit misleading I admit), and one person really couldn't keep up - but there's actually a larger team creating detection updates. Anyway, if you take a look at the latest news on the Spybot website, there are still some TBAs open for 1.6 ;)
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Reviewer:	roj	Jun 3, 2008
Version:	1.5.2.20
Completely ineffectual program. Why? Because the author cannot hope to keep up with the latest and greatest of weirdness that is out there. The premise behind the program is sound but it suffers form hopelessly outdated defs. THREE stars for a program that, while built on sound principles, offers only the illusion of safety.
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Reviewer:	^Selene^	May 31, 2008
Version:	1.5.2.20
A very good program. I always used it, and I think it's pretty nice and easy to use.
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Reviewer:	poeg	Apr 16, 2008
Version:	1.5.2.20
Been using this and others from day 1. Best scanner for a messed up rig next to making yourself a portable Spyware Doctor. Works like a champ in safe mode. If granny can't handle clicking a few buttons once a week to scrape the barnacles off her hull from all that surfing, get her an Etch-A-Sketch.
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