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Fix Spybot Search and Destroy Annoyance

As you know I am a huge fan of Spybot Search and Destroy as I mentioned in a previous post.  However, like everything there is always annoyances involved.  The biggest annoyance to me is when running Spybot and getting results back saying Windows firewall, security center, etc.

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To turn these reads off highlight the problem, right click, and choose "Exclude this product from further searches". 

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Next time you run Spybot Search and Destroy these entries will no longer come up.  You can do this with any of the results you want.

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This article was originally written on 08/29/07 Tagged with: Security, Free Software Utilities, Windows

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Comments (1)

  1. Angel

    Thank you this was very good info I almost forked up alot of $$$ before I ran into your site. I'm fed up with the Trojan pop up after downloading some "free material" goes with the territory I suppose? :/


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