Spybot-S&D newsNews about the anti-spyware software Spybot-S&D.09072003: Situation update & tools update- November 3, 2003 After those two websites, no other one came so far. A big thanks to everyone who wrote to FreeServers complaining! The fast reactions seem to have discouraged the guy who did this! But coming to more pleasant things: the tools have been updated. FileAlyzer has a few small bugfixes, RegAlyzer now supports boolean and wildcard search, and Languator can now rename and remove projects and apply rules to move andor copy sections and values.http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=news/news20030907 09192003: New email password stealing virus- November 3, 2003 Today I started to receive dozens of emails containing a new virustrojan that is not known to my antivirus programs yet. It appears in emails coming from advisor.microsoft.com, and contains a HTML page that appears to look like a very basic Microsoft homepage. Microsoft never sends out any updates or other files by email, so you can be sure this is either a virus, a trojan, or spam. In this specific case, the email is 156 KB in size and contains attachments with different names. If you would.http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=news/news20030919 08272003: Good and bad news - that ugly page is offline, and a new has appeared!- November 3, 2003 Adding to what I posted on Sunday: It took Monday for Freeservers to react, but then they reacted fast and took the page offline at once. I want to thank everyone who has written a violation report to Freeservers, and especially all those people who have helped finding traces of the guy who did this (even though I may not have posted, I've read all the topics where you people tried to help me, and you provided a lot of helpful information). Right now, Freeservers is rejecting information about.http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=news/news20030827 10042003: Another award & Tools updates- November 3, 2003 Here's another Editors' Choice Award, this time coming from the Web Host Magazine. Another recent award not yet mentioned is the Australian PC User Top Buy Award won in September. And while I'm writing a new article here, let me add that our analysis tools (FileAlyzer & RegAlyzer) have been updated a week ago... FileAlyzer now displays ID3v2 and CAB files and is faster, RegAlyzer allows replace functionality after the search and allows some drag'n'drop. Both tools are being updated...http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=news/news20031004 09102003: Messenger Service popups- November 3, 2003 Constantly people complain about popup ads bearing the title Messenger Service that are not detected by Spybot-S&D. And currently, someone even tries to shed a bad light on Spybot-S&D by making such Messenger popup ads for us. Here's our short description on how to disable the Messenger Service to stop all popups of that kind. We would recommend this to you anyway until you actively would use it (which you then would know). And should you see one of those forged Spybot-S&D advertisements,..http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=news/news20030910 10242003: Fake virus warning on CNet download.com- November 3, 2003 Someone has posted a message - supposedly coming from "the developer Patrick M. Kolla" that the download would contain a virus and people should not download it. This virus warning was not coming from Patrick Kolla, nor from anyone of Team Spybot. It's a mere fake to stop people downloading Spybot-S&D. If you take a look at the past news, you'll soon find a competitor who not only stole from our database, but also seems to like to spread false news about us.http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=news/news20031024 08242003: Bad news again - a new kind of slander- November 3, 2003 Again someone is using our good name (Spybot-S&D PepiMK Software) and my name in special (Patrick Kolla) for slander. On www.pepimksoftware.freeservers.com someone has put my and our softwares name on some text that is very despicable. I have taken action by contacting the provider of this website and the police. If you still see this website online after Monday, please contact Freeservers and report the violation as well here. I also want to distinguish myself from what is written on that.http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=news/news20030824 10262003: Warning about "SpyBan" software- November 3, 2003 Offered at www.spyban.net there is a so-called anti-spyware software named SpyBan. That software didn't even finish to install on our test machines, but along the way it installed multiple malware and spyware variants, including VX2h (ABetterInternet) and a new Look2Me variant. So actually this software is not banning spyware, but installing it, and we recommend you refrain from even trying to install it unless you have a second spyware removal tool to clean up the mess that SpyBan will produce.http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=news/news20031026 11032003: here4search.com- November 3, 2003 We are not associated with here4search.com !!! I really get tired of answering all those mails from people who got screwed by here4search.com. It seems that here4search.com refers to Spybot-S&D on their ContactRemoval page as a way to get rid of their hijacker. Some people do misinterpret this by believing we would be the origin of the hijacker itself. To those people: we don't want to learn any more English swearwords - complain to the right person if you want to complain! If you look up the.http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=news/news20031103 08222003: Update problems - please be patient- November 3, 2003 Many users are currently experiencing update problems. The reason for this is another large increase in user numbers beginning last week. We have already started moving everything onto a much more capable server, so please have some patience over the next days. If your update fails andor Spybot-S&D seems to hang, you have to wait. It can take up to a minute until it starts the download (one of the reasons we are switching the server). Also, try to select another than the default mirror - the...http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=news/news20030822 |