Spybot Search & Destroy For PC 2.8.68.0

SpyBot Search and Destroy for PC Windows is a feature-packed utility to make sure your online safety from any type of spyware and adware. Spyware is the latest type of threat to hack online browsing silently and transfer your personal information to any other company. That can’t be detected or removed by a common anti-virus program.

This software searches your hard disk for all known types of spyware, adware, and potentially unwanted programs. It offers powerful features to remove these threats and thus protect your privacy. It automatically detects adware networks, attempts at host redirection, registry modifications, or unwanted changes in the browser configuration of Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera. If an attempt is made to redirect your computer to a different name server without your permission Spybot can detect and stop this from happening.

It searches your hard disk for all known types of spyware, adware, and potentially unwanted programs. It offers powerful features to remove these threats and thus protect your privacy. It automatically detects:

• Adware networks attempt at host redirection,
• Registry modification,
• Unwanted changes in the browser configuration of Internet Explorer and Firefox.

System Requirements

Technical Specification

SpyBot Search & Destroy For Windows Features

Easy-to-use Interface

The simple interface with a clear and professional window is divided into three parts; Basic, Advanced, and Professional tools. The first two options are free of cost, but the last one is a paid version also providing an antivirus engine. Without damaging the performance of your system use the Help contents option for better handling of SpyBot.

Anti-Spyware

Spybot’s Anti-Spyware protection uses our unique technology to find and remove all kinds of spyware, including adware, tracking software, keyloggers, and other unpopular software. Your privacy is our ultimate goal!

Anti-Virus

To provide you with the best possible protection, we’ve included an award-winning anti-virus engine. It’s the engine of choice of the best-rated anti-virus products on AV-Test and AV comparatives. And on top of that most elaborate malware protection, you get our own specialized anti-spyware engine that covers the spyware grounds beyond!

Live Protection

Live Protection is Spybot’s form of real-time protection. Live protection scans and monitors all newly created and running processes on your system. Malicious processes are blocked before they start to prevent infection on your system.

Anti-Beacon

This anti-telemetry tool Anti-Beacon Plus is available to all users of the Spybot Professional and the commercial editions.

System Immunization

Immunization pro-actively protects your system against malware attacks by blocking access to sites known to contain malicious or unwanted software. It also blocks tracking cookies and browser plugins that are known to contain malware. Immunization supports many popular browsers, including Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox and Chrome.

System Scan

System Scanning is a basic tool for detecting any malicious infections or cookies. Two scanning modes—-a full system scan, and a custom file and folder scan are available to select the location for processing manually. After scanning a detailed list with the information about spyware is displayed, you can fix all selected threats with a single click, Rootkit scanning is also provided by SpyBot through its internal log.

Updated Regularly

Along with removing spyware, the program discovers as well as removes the keyloggers with the help of an update tool. Creating a backup copy of data automatically before removing bugs as well as customizing your system through the settings window.

Privacy

Removes “Usage Tracks” for making your privacy strong. “Usage Tracks” is the information of all recorded activities online. This type of information gives speedy access to data but may cause any identity theft or compromise your system. SpyBot removes the “Usage Track” and saves your privacy from attackers.

Advanced Mode

Immunization features offer automatic creation of statistics like date and time of prior system, rootkit scanning, and total detected threats. The Advanced mode activates a set of complementary features used in managing startup tools, shred files, repairing system irregularities, as well as rootkit scanning.

Rootkit Scan

Rootkits use technologies to hide themselves and their actions from users and other system processes. The Rootkit Scan is a special scan that can locate these rootkits. This scan includes checks of the file system, the registry and some process-related lists.

Task Scheduling

If you have purchased Spybot you have the advantage of being able to automate tasks. Using the Schedule option in Advanced Tools → Settings Spybot can create a Windows Scheduler task to keep your Spybot up to date, immunized, and run system scans regularly.

Secure Shredder

The Secure Shredder is a tool to safely remove files from magnetic hard drives. It uses multiple passes to make sure the files cannot be recovered.

Command Line Tools

The system administrator may schedule tasks and use Command Line Parameters or even Command Line Tools to perform different tasks without user interaction. Powershell Scripts or Batch Files may help and the Windows scheduler can support special tasks as well.

Command Line Tools are available for:

• File Scan
• System Scan
• Immunization
• Cleaning
• Updating

Pros And Cons

Conclusion

SpyBot – Search & Destroy is a handy real-time protection solution against malware, with a reliable spyware detection and disinfection capabilities. However, it is important to note here that the computer’s performance is going to be hampered, as CPU and memory usage is quite high during most processes.