"Telling a newbie to D'L/update/run SpyBot AT THIS TIME just gives that person false hope/security." How's that,KTTD? Or do you think the program is up-to-date? I'm not bashing the program at all, and definately not complaining. In the past, I've posted many times that I thought SpyBot was a much better program than AdAware since running it behind AdAware always uncovered more. For the last few months though, I consider AdAware the better program since it is currently totally functional. Why do you get so " " uptight so often?

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JohnO, Explain how and why it gives someone a false sense of security? Just because they have not given any new updates since March? Those are the words that touched my nerve and nothing more. You could have left that simple statement out and I would not have jumped on your back. Capt said it best for the most part. They are trying and please understand that. They work for free and when something is free NO BODY has any right to complain. I am sure Spybot will rebound in time just as Lavasoft did with Ad-Aware. KTTD Though I walk through the valley of Microsoft, I shall fear no OS for skills are with me

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Read this article... 3 Minutes w/ Spybot's Patrick Kolla KTTD Though I walk through the valley of Microsoft, I shall fear no OS for skills are with me

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I'm going to chime in here... "Telling a newbie to D'L/update/run SpyBot just gives that person false hope/security." A false sense of hope and security, huh? Since I am an obnoxiously vocal proponent of download/update/run for SpyBot (and anything else you use) I will say this much. Many people come here with NO HOPE or SENSE OF SECURITY. They are at their wits end, and have hit the end of the skills. ANYTHING that can help them is better than they where they were at before they came. Yes, SpyBot has not been updated since March. And I don't care. Not being updated since March borders on the irrelevant. SpyBot is still one of the most useful utilities a user with spyware/adware problems can try. Are we somehow under the impression that only the threats that emerged last month are causing people problems? Its very much the opposite. We tend to think that way, but it just ain't so. Most people have had spyware problems since they first put their PC on the Internet. To this day, SpyBot finds and fixes things that Ad-Aware does not. Ad-Aware finds and fixes things that SpyBot does not. Pretty impressive if you consider that Ad-Aware seems to be udpated almost daily and we haven't had a spybot update in 2 months. A RULE OF TECH: If it works....use it! I will keep using SpyBot and recommending it to others until the wheels fall off. Why? BECAUSE IT WORKS! AOSCLAY

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To Whom it may con....., I've said this here before, don't know the address, I'm at a dif computer. Spybot S&&D, is at 1.3 RC5 right now. It's being poked and proded ;-) to get the bugs worked out. Before the final 1.3, is released. Don't know, of the top of my head, but some includes, I think are at 5/3/04. Go HERE!, and read about it. As Kevin said, go to the "source". Hmmm, can't remember who's sig it was, but something about trusting.... Nevermind Good Luck all, P.S. NO, It's NOT DEAD!!

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Originally posted by Kevin: ::when something is free NO BODY has any ::right to complain. Not true. If something does not work, but you are not allowed to complain, then it will never be fixed. Customer / user feedback, good OR bad, is necessary. Kolla is not above criticism, though it is not his fault he's being attacked by hackers and spammers. The thing that makes me angry is that I have not found any information about this lack of updates from the Spybot S&D web site. I as a user don't know whether the company has stopped producing updates completely, or if it's experiencing technical problems or if my copy of Spybot is corrupted. I don't know! Because the only (dis)information I seem to find is from these offtopic unofficial forums.

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