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An overview of the most important changes since version 1.5 of Spybot-S&D:
System support
- Restored Win95 compatibility
- Improved Wine compatibility
- Fixed HyperThreading issues
- Improved 64 bit immunization
- Create Portable.txt in main folder to use app folder as data folder as well
- New warnings about missing admin rights on Windows Vista
- Support for multi-line bookmarks (IE 7 / Vista)
Reports
- Added version info to bug report
- Include Errors.log now includes timestamps
- Improved Windows version display
Misc
- "Single excludes" now include filenames to be more unique
- Improved settings retrieval from registry (mixed installations)
- Fixed .reg import bugs
- Added support for automated removal of F/Ps from host lists
- Changed update UserAgent and Referrer
- Improved (Vista-compatible) support for fast user switching
- Updater now in separate executable file
- Vista manifests for assigning required rights to each application
- Deactivated list of active ports per process for Vista (incompatible)
- Fixed support for handle list on 64 bit systems
- Improved disabling/enabling BHOs
- New special error reporting for beta versions
- Support for Windows Error Reporting for public versions
- Fixed update-related crashes on Vista
- Fixed memory leaks (replaced Indy with Synapse)
- Vista-compatible MSI installer for those who like/need that
- Support for alpha tests on services and domains lists
- Added hundreds of new automated tests of internal functionality for prerelease QA
- Added TeaTimer hide icon (disabled) registry value in installer
Detection and removal of threats
- Improved PE detection all over the place
- New 64 bit detection all over the place
- Improved file removal methods
- Added optional custom RecoveryDir setting in Default.ini
- Automatic guessing of "Download Dir" folders
- Added support for renaming services before stopping/killing/deleting them
- Improved plugin support (example: current TCP/IP Plugin)
- Support for regular expressions nearly all over the SBI interface
- Much improved logic connections between files, registry and API detections (others would invent a new TLA for that *g*)
- Speed-ups through improved caches
- File version checking
- Authenticode checking
- Improved archives checking
- Faster fulltext checking
- Improved Sys Internals file location algo
- Improved hosts file location algo
- Added some more Opera 9 detection schemes
User interface changes
- Fixed "show more information" panels
- Implemented workarounds for misarranged buttons (including TeaTimer)
- Improved support for /allhives in tools section (inactive installation support)
- Fixed flag shown on shortcut bar after changes
- Fixed IE proxy import in wizard
- Changed "use proxy" button to checkbox
- Improved localization on simple dialogs
- Added option to add a proxy inside app if running on Win PE
- Improved localization of list of updates
- Added Firefox icon on Cookie exclude page
- Fixed bad keyboard handling on some exclude lists
- Fixed cookie removal selection problems
- New confirmation dialog for system restore points
- Changed default font to Tahoma
- Red cross (trademarked) replaced with green cross
- Made "Check" option unavailable during fix
- Process list now is a bit less eager on tooltips
- Improved "delay start" dialogs
- Now displays checksum for each result for better trackback of results
- Fixed "Ignore Products" column width problems on Vista
- Improved localization of product descriptions
- Adjusted wizard for new situation (external updater etc.)
- Fixed Tools snapshot comparison highlighting
- Made display of registry changes in results list less confusing
- Improved SDHelper dialogs and block/allow choices
- Update date format on info page now localized
- Displayed app version is now four digits (e.g. 1.5.1.12)
- (De+)Select all in list of old reports
- Improved Warning/Confirmation dialog IE plugin
- Configuration & Information dialog in IE plugin
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