Immunization with Spybot Search and Destroy

June 19th, 2009 → 3:15 pm @ Jonny

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Spybot Immunize

Spybot may be losing it’s way a little maybe in comparison to the likes of the in favour Superantispyware and Malwarebytes, which pick up more threats, but it still holds a little trick that many people forget to do. Immunization. As the screenshot shows, the immunize feature will help “Protect yourself before threats find their way into your system.”

This is done by Spybot adding entries into the windows registry. These will block active X (in internet explorer) and block certain sites using domain restrictions. Spybot also adds entries to your hosts file. Spybot can help protect you even if you use Opera or Firefox.

Adding the addresses of websites to your hosts file (that point to 127.0.0.1) will block them. This is done to block websites that hold malware on them. Advert blocking lists are also available and this is something I have covered on my Hostsman Post.

In English: this will make it less likely for you to get malware on your system.

  • To do this you need to download Spybot Search and Destroy. Install It.
  • Follow the walkthrough instructions that will update Spybot and Immunize your computer.
  • If you already have it installed then update and immunize!

Do you know of any other tricks to help secure your PC? Let me know in the comments…

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