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The first time you start Spybot - S & D, it will display a Wizard, a small window helping you through the first steps. You will see the following screens:
1) Click “Next”, no need to create backup.;
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2) Click “Search for updates”. |
3) Click on Download all available updates, unless a "No newer updates available" message appears.  |
4) Click on the Immunize this system button. “Immunization has finished”. Click “Next”.  |
5) Click “Start using the program”.
You will see the scan progress in the status bar at the bottom of the window
(the right-most section displayed the estimated time left), and can stop
the progress at any point by pressing the Stop check button that has just
appeared.
If the scan has found problems, the list will show it.
Press the “Fix selected problems” button. You will see the progress at the
bottom status bar.
If some problems cannot be fixed now (because they are still loaded and can't be terminated, for example), Spybot-S&D offers to run on next system start, so you can check and fix again.
On the left side you will find a navigation bar that lists all functions of the program.
This is the main is the page where you go to start scanning for problems.
If you have fixed some spyware problems in the past, this list will show it. Here you can select one or more problems (see also the context menu for extended selection options) and either recover them, or purge them permanently from your system.
Spybot-S&D allows you to immunize your computer against some spyware.
Permanent Internet Explorer immunity: This allows you to tweak some internal Internet Explorer settings to block the installation of known spyware installers. Spybot-S&D is able to set all entries for those that are in its database to be blocked.
Permanently running bad download blocker for Internet Explorer: This is a second layer of protection for IE. While the Permanent Immunity blocks installers by their ActiveX ID, this one blocks anything that should come through by different aspects.
You can find the update function by choosing Update from
the Spybot-S&D section in the toolbar to the
left. To update the program, click the “Search for updates” button. That
will download a list of available updates and compare them to the files already
installed on your system. New files will be shown in the list, where
you can select them and press the “Download updates” button afterwards.
During
download, every finished file will get a green check mark. IMPORTANT: You should check for updates every time
you need to run a scan because your computer is having problems you
suspect are caused by malware.
Donations – NUL has already made a donation for the use of this software.
