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Once you have started Spybot-Search&Destroy, you can immediately start
scanning.
After you have started the program, you will already see the scan screen.
If not, please select Search & Destroy in the Spybot-S&D
section in the toolbar to the left.
The search screen contains a toolbar with the most important options. Let's
start a scan: please press the Check for problems button.
You will see the scan progress in the status bar at the bottom of the
window (the right-most section displayed the estimated time left), and can
stop the progress at any point by pressing the Stop check button that
has just appeared (it will vanish again once the check has finished).
If the scan has found something, the list will show it. There are two
basic kinds of results:
- Red entries indicate spyware
problems that should be fixed to avoid security and/or privacy problems.
This is the only kind of problem that is preselected to be fixed.
- Green entries indicate
usage tracks. It can do no harm to remove these.
For most of the problems there are more informations available.
On the right side of the window you will find a grey button. By clicking it a window will
open and show you some information about the item selected (if there is none selected, you can
simply click on it and the information will be displayed).
You can now select the problems you want to fix, by clicking the checkbox
before it, or by selecting all using the button Select all problems
(this button will only be able in advanced mode by enabling the expert button
setting). More selection options are available if you look into the context
menu (by right-clicking a problem). The context menu will also allow you to
exclude single problems or whole products from further scans (you may later
change the exclude settings in the settings section/Ignore...).
Once you are sure you have selected what you want to be removed from your
computer, press the Fix selected problems button. You will see the
fixing progress at the bottom status bar.
If problems can not be fixed now (because they are still loaded and can't
be terminated, for example), Spybot-S&D offers to run on next system
start, so you can check and fix again.
Should you notice at any later point that you have removed more spyware
than you wanted, you can always restore it from the recovery
in the Spybot-S&D-section.
You can also fine-tune your scan options by selecting special
filesets and changing some
settings.
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