The Spybot Search and Destroy Game
Scanning your PC for spyware can be a boring process. Well there is a cool "Easter egg" in Spybot Search and Destroy which allows you to play a game of removing squares to reveal a painting by Leonardo da Vinci. This works in Spybot Search & Destroy 1.4
Start up Spybot Search & Destroy and initiate a scan. While the scan is running, click on the binoculars located under Help.
You will hear a horse sound and the game will start up!
Just something cool added in to our favorite anti-spyware application you may not have known about.
This article was originally written on 09/7/07
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Just to throw in a little culture on the readers of HTG
The name of the game is Knight's Tour, and the picture is known by the name of The Vitruvian Man. Do Wikipedia searches for both.
Cool. Have they fixed that interface bug with the resident shield yet?
What is young Leonardo doing there all naked and with his legs wide open?
nice, i have spent hours watching that screen bored waiting for the scan to complete….
thanks
Just keep in mind that the headers have to be displayed (in "Advanced Mode" choose "Settings", "Settings" and place a checkmark at "Display header." in section "Look & Feel").
BTW: Works in version 1.5, too.
You do not have to intiate a scan. I opened up Spybot and I saw the binoculars on top and clicked it and the game opened.
It works on any symbol in that spot, not just the binoculars. (Sorry, I know this was a long time ago, but so what)
I found the game but all i get when i click on a square is "you cannot move there"