Comments on: Welcome to Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.5 http://www.whatthetech.com/2007/09/04/welcome-to-spybot-search-destroy-15/ formerly TomCoyote Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:08:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Bill Bright http://www.whatthetech.com/2007/09/04/welcome-to-spybot-search-destroy-15/#comment-710 Bill Bright Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:17:27 +0000 http://www.whatthetech.com/2007/09/04/welcome-to-spybot-search-destroy-15/#comment-710 I do not share the enthusiasm here. When you install the new V1.5x it will, without your consent, install a SDHelper BHO (plug-in) in IE - this occurs without your knowledge or consent - even is you opt to not install SDHelper. Even upon exit of the program, those two BHOs remain active. :( The browser extention, Spybot - Search & Destroy Configuration is also installed. If you should run into a cookie ("BadURL") it thinks may be malicious, like doubleclick, a SDHelper popup will yell at you. While this may be nice, I don't like programs that install stuff on my computer without my knowledge and I especially don't like programs that do not terminate completely when I exit them. Fortunately, with IE7, it is a simple process to disable BHOs, but that's not the point. I do not share the enthusiasm here. When you install the new V1.5x it will, without your consent, install a SDHelper BHO (plug-in) in IE - this occurs without your knowledge or consent - even is you opt to not install SDHelper. Even upon exit of the program, those two BHOs remain active. :(

The browser extention, Spybot - Search & Destroy Configuration is also installed.

If you should run into a cookie ("BadURL") it thinks may be malicious, like doubleclick, a SDHelper popup will yell at you. While this may be nice, I don't like programs that install stuff on my computer without my knowledge and I especially don't like programs that do not terminate completely when I exit them. Fortunately, with IE7, it is a simple process to disable BHOs, but that's not the point.

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