by certifiedbug on April 7, 2009
in Software
Beta News, Security.
“It’s hard enough to make a name for yourself as an independent anti-malware company, without competitors demanding your software be uninstalled.”
For years, Spybot Search & Destroy has been one of Fileforum’s single most installed pieces of software, with nearly 67 million downloads since 2000 on our sister site alone. It’s one of the Web’s original anti-spyware packages, independently distributed by Safer Networking Ltd., based in Ireland and developed in Germany.
Despite a user base in the dozens of millions (if not more; Safer Networking doesn’t track its users), Spybot S&D hasn’t had an easy time establishing itself in the competitive anti-malware field. Because it is freeware (commercial users must purchase licenses), the application is seen as a thorn in the side of larger companies who sell security software with the same functionality.
But now, the principals of Safer Networking are stepping up their rhetoric a bit. Speaking with Betanews last week, the developers of Spybot S&D demonstrated how some of its larger competitors are actively using their anti-virus tools to keep Spybot off customers’ systems.
Safer Networking names three manufacturers in particular: Trend Micro, Kaspersky Labs, and McAfee Software.
“We are not happy with the new marketing strategy that softwares like McAfee use to kick competitors out of the business,” wrote one company representative on Safer Networking’s forums, in response to yet another Spybot customer’s call for help.
Full story:
http://www.betanews.com/article/Spybot-Search-Destroy-competitors-are-trying-to-force-its-removal/1237840882
by certifiedbug on February 2, 2009
in Software
News -The Home of Spybot-S&D
January 26, 2009.
The probably last maintenance release of Spybot-S&D 1.6.2 is finally ready, available starting today on the first mirrors, with more becoming available as they’re added. It will also be available through the integrated updater soon after it is online completely.
Among its bugfixes and new features are support for the latest Opera releases, support for Googles new browser Chrome, fixed support for fresh older Firefox installations, improved support for fast user switching while Spybot is running, plus a few more bugfixes.
A preview of Spybot 2.0 will also be available as soon as servers have adjusted to the additional 1.6.2 release load.
Screenshots from the labs regarding Spybot – Search & Destroy 2.0 development.
Noted by users, ‘official-download.net’ appears to be selling a product that is presented in such a way as to mislead a person searching for the download page for a well known antispyware program.
Domain Tools.
Related Sites: 2008-official.net
Website title: Earth 2009 Secrets
That’s how the banner appeared yesterday, today it looked like this.
At the bottom of the page in pale grey,
This website has no affiliation whatsoever with the owner of this software program, and provides ONLY a link to the software program. If you are a member and need support please contact us and not the software owner. This Software may be obtained freely New computer users should find our services valuable, and a time saver. If you are an advanced computer user, you probably don’t need our services.
The download button took me to secure.signupsecurity.com and the following steps requiring one fill out an email address, contact information, 1,2 or 3 year membership options and features.
No thanks…
Persistant aren’t they… 
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/official-download.net
The real thing: Spybot-S&D©® http://www.spybot.info/
by certifiedbug on August 6, 2008
in Software
News – The Home of Spybot-S&D!
With the release of Spybot-S&D 1.6, our detectives have spent some hard time implementing some of the new technologies to improve Virtumonde detections, increasing our detection range by more than 40% to now more than quarter of a million detection patterns to identify more than one million fingerprints.Virtumonde (also known as the Vundo Trojan) is a Trojan horse that is known to cause popups and advertising for rogue antispyware programs. It also causes other misbehavior, including performance degredation and denial of service with some websites including Google. It attaches to the system using bogus BHO’s (Browser Helper Objects) and DLL files attached to Winlogon and Windows Explorer.To profit from these improvements, we recommend that you update to Spybot – Search & Destroy 1.6, which will be available through the update function integrated into the application as well starting today, as soon as possible.
And, if you still have any problems regarding Virtumonde please feel free to visit our forum or e-mail our detections department.
