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Why do other spyware programs appear to find spies in Spybot – Search & Destroy’s directory?

November 9, 2012 - 8:54 am

Please have a look at the path where such a program has found the spyware.
As Spybot 2 has no spyware integrated, this must be a false alarm.
The reason for such a false alarm is simple: Spybot 2 saves quarantine files of the problems you have fixed, to make it possible to recover them in case something has stopped working after the fix.
If the file found is in the Quarantine directory which would be here:

Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Spybot-Search & Destroy\Quarantine

Windows Vista or Windows 7 or Windows 8: C:\Users\All Users\Spybot-Search & Destroy\Quarantine

it is such a quarantine file. It is no longer of any harm, as the file cannot be started anymore.
But once you are sure you do not need the backup, go to the Quarantine section inside Spybot 2 and purge those files.
Current versions compress the quarantine files into password-protected zip archives,
thus avoiding other spyware applications will give false alarms.
Some programs might notify you that they cannot access these zip archives – this can easily be ignored.

As the quarantine files are named after the threat some programs might also naively detect the backups as threats just because of the file name. This can also be ignored.

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