Re: Spybot and BHO

From: JD (Erehwon_at_Example.com)
Date: 03/27/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:57:14 -0800

So do I correctly infer that the "immunize feature" is protection against
malware, so that a system scan should never find any?
Is it your view that enabling this feature is a good idea, or is it ever
problematic? If the latter, how does one disable it--short of uninstalling
and reinstalling Spybot?
<Vanguard> wrote in message news:YvSdnZqJjPa7c9jfRVn-rg@comcast.com...
> "JD" <Erehwon@Example.com> wrote in message
> news:%23GlGiPlMFHA.3228@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>I just installed Spybot S+D, and I notice that a BHO called "Bad download
>>blocker" was installed in IE.
>> I don't see anything about this in Help, and I'm curious as to what this
>> add-on does.
>> Is it a "real time" protection of some sort? Will it prevent the
>> downloading of malware?
>> Additionally, I wonder if someone can enlighten me regarding another BHO.
>> This one is called Research, and it shows no name under Publisher and
>> none under File name.
>>
>
>
> You enabled the Immunize feature in Spybot, so you told Spybot to install
> its BHO.
>
> Use BHO Demon to list the BHOs that are installed. They also have a
> database of known BHOs and maybe your's is one of them, so it will show
> some vendor info for the BHO in its display listing the BHOs.
>
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