How to Scan Computer Using Spybot Search and Destroy (2.9, FREE, 2022)

How to Scan Computer Using Spybot Search and Destroy (2.9, FREE, 2022) shows you how to use Spybot to scan your computer for malware and remove it using the fix functionality.

Additionally, Spybot will also search for PUPs - potentially unwanted programs - that have been reported by users to be legitimate pieces of software but that have some potentially annoying features - for example excessive adverts or nag screens to upgrade.

We guide you through the quick process of scanning and fixing any issues found to leave your system squeaky clean!

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We're going to look at how to run the
scan on Spybot Search & Destroy. So, as
always, we double click on the start
center from our desktop, uh which will
open. Uh we can currently see our
immunization and last update is fine,
but our last system scan, your computer
has not been scanned yet. That is red,
meaning that we need to take some urgent
action. And it is our last red on list,
so what we should do, now that we've
already immunized, if you not already
watched that video, make sure you check
it out. Um we now need to scan the
system. So, if you click the scan system
button,
it will take a few seconds to load the
scanning app, and it will immediately
start. So, as you can see here, the scan
is progressing. It tells you the how
long has elapsed, so less than a minute
at the moment, and it currently tells
you what product it is searching for.
So, it will search for a variety of
different malware, rootkits, keyloggers,
adware, spyware, anything which could be
slowing down your program, uh your
programs or system, including what is
called uh pups or potentially unpopular
software, which may have a legitimate
use, but have been reported to be
annoying to users. This could be through
ads, constant nag screens, or just
general poor performance,
um and affecting the system.
The status at the top still shows red
whilst the scan is progressing because
at this stage we could stop the scan,
and the system would still be
vulnerable. But, when we look here,
it the scan will not include extended
antivirus checks. That is part of the
professional editions of Spybot, which
do cost money. We have got a reminder
here that to improve our scan results,
we should buy the home or professional
editions. This does not improve the
malware scan results, which you have
always been free and you get for free
anyway, but what it does do is extend to
antivirus checks. So, it is really
important that you do have antivirus on
the system. It doesn't have to be from
Spybot.
Um we can see after a couple of minutes,
we are at 1.9%
now, 2% of the system scan completed.
So, we can keep an eye
an eye on the progress here by looking
at the top left-hand corner. For those
of you that did create a trust list, it
was an awfully long process. The scan
with a trust list will be certainly much
faster. It will take less than the 5 and
1/2 hours it took to create the trust
list. If you want more information on
that, don't forget to look at that
video, as well. And
even if you haven't created a trust
list, on the vast majority of systems,
an average running system these days,
you would not expect the scan to take
more than an hour to complete the entire
system. So, at the moment, we're going
to keep leaving this running. You can
see what it is scanning for in the
status bar. You can see the name of the
threats there, all these that it's going
through have been identified as malware.
So, you can see the first part of it
says what type of malware, so ads in
this case, and then that called Safe
Surfing is currently being scanned here
for.
Some detections, due to how complex the
malware integrates to system, will take
longer to scan for than others. So, as
we can see here, for Safe Surfing, it is
taking a lot longer than the previous
ones, which it managed to flick through
very fast. And at the moment, we are 3
minutes in, and we're going to leave it
here for the moment, continuing to scan
the system, and we will pop back shortly
to see what happens at the end of the
scan.
And then, when we get the scan results,
um scan finishes, we get the results.
So, the scanning total took 34 minutes
and 41 seconds to finish, and found 18
results. Now, we can see here the threat
level is really low here. We can see
that there's also no malware there, and
that all the categories are tracks,
which means something that could be
potentially tracking you, as well as
um a couple of bits in browser history
and cache. There's nothing here which is
of a high threat threat level, that's
good. When you find these here, you can
tick and untick different results
to decide whether to clean them or not.
In this case, we'll allow it to clean
them all. So, if we click fix selected,
we can see there that it has actually
gone and successfully fixed all these
problems because we have a tick against
all of those now.
Hope that helps. Don't forget to click
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