[Released] Spybot - Search & Destroy Portable 1.6.2 Development Test 5

Thanks for this. It's been on my most wanted list for some time. Will test for a while and see how it goes.

An initial thought regarding TeaTimer, is it wanted?

I, and I believe most SpyBot users, use SpyBot as a secondary scanner therefore resident scanning is not required. As a PortableApp I would think this would be even more the case.

From memory TeaTimer closely monitors (and possibly hooks into) the registry acting almost like a firewall. This would be quite a handful to manage portably.

Anyway thanks again

PAF pass with no issues except the icon being horrible (as you said) and help.html not encoding the & character as & (not an issue except that it's not valid HTML).

Tested on XP SP3, administrator. Language switching worked.

Some keys have been left behind:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\.disabled
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\.sbe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\.sbi
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\.sbs
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\.tnfo
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\.uti
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\.uts
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\SpybotSD.DisabledFile
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\SpybotSD.SBEFile
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\SpybotSD.SBIFile
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\SpybotSD.SBSFile
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\SpybotSD.TInfoFile
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\SpybotSD.UTIFile
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\SpybotSD.UTSFile
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Safer Networking Limited
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application\SNL HiveManager
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application\Spybot - Search & Destroy 2

The use of the event log is not quite desirable. There's an extra value which is not altered due to it as well:

Before: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application\Sources: 'WSH WMIAdapter WmdmPmSN WinMgmt Winlogon Windows Product Activation Windows 3.1 Migration WgaSetup WebClient VSS VBRuntime Userinit Userenv Tlntsvr SysmonLog Starter SpoolerCtrs Software Restriction Policies Software Installation SecurityCenter SclgNtfy SceSrv SceCli safrslv SAFrdms RPC Remote Assistance PerfProc PerfOS PerfNet Perfmon Perflib PerfDisk Perfctrs Offline Files Oakley ntbackup MSSQLSERVER/MSDE MSSHA MsiInstaller MSDTC Client MSDTC mnmsrvc Microsoft H.323 Telephony Service Provider LoadPerf HelpSvc Folder Redirection File Deployment EventSystem ESENT DrWatson Dot3Svc DiskQuota crypt32 COM+ COM Ci Chkdsk AutoEnrollment Autochk Application Management Application Hang Application Error Application'
After:  HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application\Sources: 'Spybot - Search & Destroy 2 SNL HiveManager WSH WMIAdapter WmdmPmSN WinMgmt Winlogon Windows Product Activation Windows 3.1 Migration WgaSetup WebClient VSS VBRuntime Userinit Userenv Tlntsvr SysmonLog Starter SpoolerCtrs Software Restriction Policies Software Installation SecurityCenter SclgNtfy SceSrv SceCli safrslv SAFrdms RPC Remote Assistance PerfProc PerfOS PerfNet Perfmon Perflib PerfDisk Perfctrs Offline Files Oakley ntbackup MSSQLSERVER/MSDE MSSHA MsiInstaller MSDTC Client MSDTC mnmsrvc Microsoft H.323 Telephony Service Provider LoadPerf HelpSvc Folder Redirection File Deployment EventSystem ESENT DrWatson Dot3Svc DiskQuota crypt32 COM+ COM Ci Chkdsk AutoEnrollment Autochk Application Management Application Hang Application Error Application'

Also the directory C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Spybot - Search & Destroy was left behind with various data. There's a [DirectoriesMove] entry which should deal with it, so I'm not sure what happened there. I'll need to try it again another day.

I did go to the immunisation tab but didn't do anything with it.

Spybot - Search & Destroy Portable

A valuable addition to the PA portfolio, I think. If it can be made really "clean".

Personally, Spybot S&D is usually my 2nd choice after the (installed) virus scanner. I almost never use TeaTimer, and if so, only on installed Spybot versions. I feel it wouldn’t be required for a portable app. After all, with tools like Spybot S&D it’s usually "come over, help someone, and leave".

Just my 2 cents while timing the tea …

Small issue with the name being displayed in the menu. The name shows as "Spybot - Search _Destroy Portable" but should be "Spybot - Search & Destroy Portable". If you add a 2nd & to the appinfo.ini then the menu displays it correctly, however this causes 2 &'s to be displayed in the tooltip. This might be more of a menu issue but figured i'd mention it here.

Thanks this works like a charm!

I had a rough go on SpybotPortable and ran into several new issues, all tested on XP sp3 admin and/or non-admin.

1. After using the 'Search for updates' feature, I ended-up with 4 packages being installed to %PROGRAMFILES% (sorry, this is probably a portability killer )

   C:\Program Files\File Scanner Library (Spybot - Search & Destroy)\advcheck.dll
   C:\Program Files\Misc. Support Library (Spybot - Search & Destroy)\Tools.dll
   C:\Program Files\SDHelper (Spybot - Search & Destroy)\KIBPDCRSTALOL.scr
   C:\Program Files\SDHelper (Spybot - Search & Destroy)\SDHelper.dll
   C:\Program Files\TeaTimer (Spybot - Search & Destroy)\GYSCUGE.scr
   C:\Program Files\TeaTimer (Spybot - Search & Destroy)\TeaTimer.exe
   

2. Allthought language swithing from PAM works no matter it's admin or not (actually I've got no idea how admin or not, could ever make a difference as all PAL has to do is modify a HKCU value), it gets broken whenever SpybotP is ran directly.
   Why are you writing the language value as an INI, but reading the value with ConfigRead ?
   The ConfigRead is probably not doing the intended job somehow !
3. On my OS the directory to be moved is:
   '%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Spybot - Search & Destroy'
   instead of
   '%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Spybot - Search & Destroy'

I deleted all the directories which were empty. start and stop, updated and they never appeared again. i think it does it on first update.

James

I could not get Spybot to recognize FirefoxPortable.

I successfully immunized my local installed Firefox-3.6.8 on my workstation. By sorting the local profile directory my date/time, the only thing changed was a file named permissions.sqlite. Spybot added over 44,487 entries making it grow from 200k to 1.5MBs.

I copied this file to my PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\Data\Profile directory and it seems to be working.

Can someone verify this is all needed to immunize FirefoxPortable?

Thanks

First of all, it didn't work. It timed out and said there was an error retrieving the info file.

A cursory check of the filesystem (XP SP3, admin rights) shows 17 files and 4 folders were added under \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Spybot - Search & Destroy\.

The issue only applies to XP. It's because they changed the way "all users" works. In Vista/Win7, "all users" consists of global folders, like C:\ProgramData, where all local users can share access to apps or data.

The path listed in the default config (%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Spybot - Search & Destroy) works fine for Windows 7 because %ALLUSERSPROFILE% is set to C:\ProgramData by default in Windows 7.

In XP Pro SP3, "all users" is actually a user with a user directory in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users, so the default value of %ALLUSERSPROFILE% points to there instead of to %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Spybot - Search & Destroy.

Installed on both XP SP3 and Windows 7 Enterprise.

No modifications necessary. Works like a charm!

Ive installed Spybot ver 2.4.40.0
Now I want to remove my portable apps usb stick And I can't get spybot to exit, I've closed spybot, but when I click to remove port app, the error is ' spybot is still running. close all programs
So, how do I do that??
BTW, portable apps 12.1